Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross340
Ooh. Nice.
What are you doing to drive the arm?
What are you doing to drive the gripper?
can you pick up on the other side of you?
with 2 points of contact, how well does it grip the ball?
|
We are using two window motors, one on each side with a series of gears for gear reduction in the middle.
the gripper is going to be pretty complex using pneumatics, its really pretty neat how it works...maybe ill let my team send me some detailed pictures later...
in this picture you can only see two points of contact, there is actually a 3 arm that is shaped like the other two, flipped 90 degrees to support the bottom part of the ball. its complicated to explain how that works.
Best case scenario, we will be able to do everything with the ball.
worst is that we will be able to knock it off and herd.
We posted a thread a while back referring to our drivetrain. I will tell you that we are using a SuperShifter.
For the rest, you guys will just have to wait and see it in action...maybe instead of a detailed photo i will get a video of it in action...we'll see what my team allows me to do if anything..haha
As a team, we are pretty proud of it overall.
(: