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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296
Interestingly, I have yet to see a robot in any reveal video or picture that does anything with upside down totes (to be fair: that shows them doing anything), be it flip them or use them as-is. Seems 3 people submitted this response, perhaps they can enlighten us with how exactly they plan to.
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While we do not expect to use the totes while inverted, we believe that by week 4 (Bayou regional) we will be able to correct inverted totes against the step. Our front fork has a passive bit of angle aluminum that was originally designed to keep our stack of totes fairly close to vertical. Later (semi-manual) testing demonstrated that we could shove that bit of angle aluminum under an inverted tote against the step and rotate it at least onto its side in one step, possibly righting the tote so that our side-grabber can get to it. We bagged a robot, but have an essentially identical robot that we will be using for programming tuning and driver practice right up until Bayou.