Static Discharge Disables Robot

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Remember the first week of Lunacy? Before the metal bar in front of the fueling stations was insulated, robots would regularly reset when they came into contact with it and static-zapped themselves.

I wasn't aware of that. We had put aluminum tape on much of our robot specifically to control static.

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

A brief pulse of extremely high current through the robot frame induces currents in every nearby wire.

Quite true, of course -- but I'm surprised that the robots are picking up enough static to generate extremely high current. One would think that the CRio, tank of a system that it is purported to be, would be sufficiently shielded from induced emf from static discharge.

...I think I learn something every time I log in here...