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Re: Think about Robot Ground Clearance

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Originally Posted by ggoldman View Post
Therefore, with only a 1" ground clearance with 6" wheels, you can climb onto a ramp that is roughly 19 degrees in grade (use arctan{a/b}).
I'm confuzzled. I was just measuring our robot for last year, and it had 1/2 inch of ground clearance, and 4" wheels. It climbed the ramp extremely well with wedgetop tread. (Roughtop was different story altogether, becuase it wore out pretty much instantly spinning on lexan.) But we had six of them, does your math assume 4? (Your picture isn't showing up)
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