Thread: Center of Mass question
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Re: Center of Mass question
I'm going to go out on a tetra manipulator here and say that a 5 foot high COM is a bad idea. the angle of tipping that would be required to make your robot go over sideways is just a couple degrees. backwards and forwards isn't much better. Just accelerating hard willl make you go over. I remember the box ball collectors of 2002, they fell all the time because they had too much weight up top. Its a big issue. I strongly suggest trying to find a way to lower it. Even 3 or 4 feet would help a lot.
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