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Re: Robot Tipping issues

We did two things to prevent tipping. We designed as much wait opposite to where we hold the totes/cans as possible. That wasn't enough, so we added weights (dumbbell plates) to the back. We also noticed that if the driver accelerated, or "decelerated" to quickly we could either tip, or lose our stack. So we implemented "ramping" code that limits the acceleration of the bot.