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Re: IRI - 2014 Team Invitations

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Originally Posted by Pretzel View Post
To add to that, it would be interesting to put an accelerometer on the robots to see how forceful the impact of a collision between robots is. I would imagine that it can get quite high, in terms of g-forces, but I could also be completely wrong.
I imagine you could extrapolate crash g's (decelleration) from the graph of the wheel encoders, as long as the crash was in the direction of travel. How accurate could that be?
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