
09-02-2015, 08:27
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AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
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Re: Unique robot design?
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Originally Posted by mrnoble
I'm sort of surprised that, in all the discussion about accessing the recycling containers on the step, people are only talking about ways to reach over the landfill. Why not just move it?
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We had a team of students and a mentor prototype mechanisms to do this for about a week, ranging from a cow catcher to a curved "tote redirector" that drove along an alliance wall. The cow catcher / snowplow designs for us were pretty terrible at getting much past the first layer of totes once you built the entire wall configuration. The "tote redirector" may have worked if we had lined it with idler wheels (think 1717's spine last year), but at that point we decided we weren't winning the auton battle and that our intake would be able to clear the 3-4 totes in the way quickly enough for qualifications in teleop.
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