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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
Not knowing what your robot looks like in the area you intend to mount it, there's really no way to say what would work well. You need to check all 29 directions it could move to make sure it can't move that way. 26 directions are translations: - toward each of the 6 faces of the battery
- toward each of the 8 corners
- toward each of the 12 edges
And the other three are rotations: roll, pitch, yaw.
If you're using the KoP chassis and have enough room inside, a battery fits snugly inside the front or rear plate. That will knock out roll, pitch, and five more directions by itself, and give support for several of the others. |
29 degrees of freedom is ridiculous - for example, there is no way you can secure all 6 faces of the battery OR all 8 corners while leaving an edge free to translate. In reality, as with all solid objects in 3D space, there are 6 degrees of freedom - translation in X / Y / Z and roll / pitch / yaw. If your battery is fully constrained in all 6 of these degrees of freedom, it can't move regardless of whether or not you can see a corner of the battery.
As to answer the OP's question - you basically want to secure the battery as well as you would secure it on the final robot, even temporarily, since you're likely to be flying across obstacles and whatnot. Some aluminum angle on four sides with a strap across the top is an easy temporary way to do it. Don't use tape. Try to take advantage of existing geometry on your robot (ie the side of the chassis, etc) if you can. Do secure the top of the battery as you'll be jumping over some rough obstacles and it could jostle loose.