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Re: The REAL chokehold of 2016

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
The low bar and berms wouldn't be too big a problem; there's no need for the chassis to be that low to the floor. It would be best if the robot had a holonomic (or swerve) drive system so that it can drive along its short axis onto/off of its own batter and along its long axis to cross under the low bar and over the berms. I'd probably go (non equilateral) kiwi.
Oh man if only they had thought about that. Oh wait...

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The robot has 3 wheel kiwi drive, that allows it to go over the secret passage, and go sideways under the low bar to come back and capture.
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