Deployment Brainstorm

[RMS11]

So we got our third iteration of our deployment system set up and are pleased with its performance, but realized one major issue when testing today: our minibot just isnt stable enough to hold for a two minute match. I am trying to come up with as simple and lightweight solution as possible, but know I must be missing something. What are other teams doing?

So far I have considered servo holding down the minibot, a long piston through the minibot, a frame that mounts concentric to the shaft of rotation like a casing, a casing just fixed in place when the minibot sits rotated into the bot, an electromagnet (still need to check on legality, hadnt gotten that far yet), trying to get the pin to go all the way through into the minibot slideout the goes vertical through the minibot also (doubt how effective this would be).

Currently, the system is set up with 3 vertical posts through holes in the minibot with an extra support to hold the battery, but in a 2 minute match we doubt this will last. Here is a video of the whole system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0EN...eature=related

What are other teams doing? All these ideas we have had so far either seem over complicated or impractical. At alamo, 118 had an awesome 3D printed bracket, unfortunately we dont have this capability. Any brainstorming help would be great! Thanks!