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Re: Teams going after the ramp?

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Originally Posted by icdumbpeeps305
If you make a robot robust enough, why not go for the ramp, it's one of the easiest things in the competition to do.
WOW! Have you even thought about all the variables that go into going up the ramp? If your CoG is high then that CoG will most likely be moved off the base when you go up a 30 deg. ramp! Let’s do the math. If you have a robot whose CoG is 40 inches above the ground and in the center of the robot then using trig you find that the CoG is moved around 23 inches on a 30 deg incline, and with that the CoG is bound to be outside of the base. But if you want more proof, then if its at 30 inches the movement is 17 inches which is you add in momentum and other factors might be enough to get up the ramp but that’s not taking into account all of the diamond plate that’s on the ramp that very slick and hard to get up.
(not 100% sure on the math (tan Theta x dist??))

Pushing around balls/robots has got to be the easiest part of the game (not collecting them). But other than that our team has decided that the ramp isn’t worth enough to go for it but if the robot can do it then good.
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