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Unread 16-01-2002, 17:26
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Shifting Gears --

After taking a poll, it seems a lot of the teams who browse Chiefdelphi are going to be building dual transmission robot. I guess I would define this as a robot that can shift gears (low to high).

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...&threadid=1697

Now with this information, can someone post what they have done in the past? I'm particularly interested in "on-the-fly" gear switching mechanisms using spur gears or a built gear box. But post anything and everything you're willing to share.

As always, I am grateful for your help.

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Unread 16-01-2002, 17:56
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Last year we used drill motors for propulsion. We used servos to shift gears. The problem is you had to be standing still to shift. We had a spring go from the servo arm to the shift lever. The spring acted as a servo saver and wouldn't stall the servo. When the servo arm would swing left/right the spring would pull on the shifter. It worked pretty well.

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Shifting

Anton,
If you're willing to build your own shifting transmission, I suggest you look at a moped/minibike transmission, they do auto shifting AND RC car transmissions. We are attempting to develop shifting but as yet all our ideas are unproven



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Last year we used drill motors for propulsion. We used servos to shift gears. The problem is you had to be standing still to shift. We had a spring go from the servo arm to the shift lever. The spring acted as a servo saver and wouldn't stall the servo. When the servo arm would swing left/right the spring would pull on the shifter. It worked pretty well.

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Could you post some pictures for this spring lever.
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See if someone has a picture of the HOT BOT from last year they had a trick shifting mechanism using little air cylinders. I don't know if they used it but it looked really cool

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Why shift? Why not a continuously variable transmission? Any thoughts?
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like using belts similar to the insides of a drill press? lots of friction perhaps? i dunno.
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Shifting 2 Drills with 1 servo

It is also possible to shift both drill motors with one servo. We did this on Big MO two years ago. However you still have to stop to shift. On-the-fly shifting is the way to go. By the way, HotBots shifting did work last year. Now if only there was pictures.
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2 sets of drive wheels?

Our team is going to try to shift on the fly by having 2 sets of drive wheels that are always spinning (one set for high gear, one set for low gear) and putting the high gear wheels down with a pneumatic. I am skeptical of it but only time will tell.
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A transmissiom would be cool - anyome thought of using something smple like a bicycle chain dereiler? This would be failry easy if using one drive wheel - harder if two drive wheels -
you'd need a differential - really hard if using a 4 wheel drive.

The drill press stacked pulleys are really the same thing has the
typical bicycle gear cluster, and I have seen designs for 'infinately variable speed transmissions based on two parabolic cylinders and a drive wheel.

Remember automatic transmissions work because of fluidic coupling - ie they are clutch less. Manual transmission rely on the
very sophisticated feedback system of a human mind to match the
speed of the motor to the speed rnage of the wheels.

So while I see that some of you suoer sophisticated teams will want to be both super fast and have super torque, think about all those gears and sprokets and things getting strewn all over the competition floor. What is the problem you are trying to solve? Is a multi-speed transmission the only way to do it?
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Why shift? Why not a continuously variable transmission? Any thoughts?
Personally, I love this idea to bits! Being from the "Computer Science" side of the force, I'm not exactly sure what the best way is to make one of these contraptions. I think other teams have done it with varing degrees of sucuess? Could those teams who have made CVTs please tell us about them? Pictures too! Thanks!
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One idea which we had, but we did not use it, was that there be a cradle for the chain on the gear. then, a high torque, low speed motor was taken and made to pull this cradle left and right and make the chain go from gear to gear. We did not consider this design because a bike chain is required to be used. It is same like a multi speed bike. Need presicision work

Works in moton and while standing !!!

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Re: 2 sets of drive wheels?

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Our team is going to try to shift on the fly by having 2 sets of drive wheels that are always spinning (one set for high gear, one set for low gear) and putting the high gear wheels down with a pneumatic. I am skeptical of it but only time will tell.

We are doing essentially the same thing, Fast and Slow wheels, powered by the same drill motors, but to conserve space only skid plates will be used in conjunction with the fast wheels.
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