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Unread 09-03-2009, 21:32
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Re: Pinning Long Robots

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Originally Posted by IKE View Post
If you turn into their bot, your forces are opposing theirs which keeps you in place (center of regolith). It also causes your bot to rotate around theirs, and theirs to rotate about yours. As the speed of rotation increase, you will slip away (unless they are way faster), and your trailer will swing around the front of their bot and break loose.
That didn't work against us, because like you said, our robot's really really fast, and only a few pounds under the limit, hah.
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