pic: 1675's REAL IRI Upgrade

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by apalrd

In 2005, we actually switched after our first competition, and pulled out the whole two crab-modules (two pods and a steering motor on a single removable block), and replaced them with four crab gearboxes mounted fixed (so we had a 4wd with pneumatic wheels, at less weight than the crab drive, and the cg offset of tetras on an arm allowed us to steer without too much bounce.) That non-crabbing robot went on to play on Einstein and win the IRI, but did not get picked at that first competition (the gripper was also partially to blame with that, but with the weight savings of loosing the crab, we could build a much better pneumatic one)


We don't talk about 2009. It sits in the basement and hasn't seen the light of day for about two years.


(47 also had a crab in 2000, FYI)

I know, I remember that 2005 robot. I also remember tipping you guys at West Michigan that year...

I also know about the 2009 robot, I almost borrowed it for a class project but it turned out to be just too large to be safe for me to use for the experiment.

Thanks for reminding me what year 47 ran its second crab. I kept thinking 99 for some reason.