Thread: field blocking?
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Unread 15-01-2005, 00:25
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Re: field blocking?

What I'm looking at is not the strenght of the arms, or the place that they are mounted but the torque applied to the whole robot when another robot pushes on the end of the arm. It will just spin the robot right around because there is a lot of leverage.

EDIT: The case I described would be where the robot is not interacting with the field other than by it's tractive devices (wheels, tracks, etc.)
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