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Originally Posted by Alex1072
What do you guys think: If we have a foot print that fills up all 28x38 inches with wheels pretty close to the corners, is a 5 foot vertically center of mass too high? How tipsy would our robot be? The COM is actually almost dead center on the robot on the horizontal plane, but still, 5 feet is a lot isn't it?
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Assuming your wheels are RIGHT AT the edge of the 'bot, and the center of mass is centered above your footprint, it's only 14" from the tipping point. If you were to tip any more than 13.13 degrees (tan
-1(14"/60")), you're going to go on over! Not a pretty picture.
