Video of first ever triple balance

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

(As far as I know they didn't use it in this match).

You can watch it retract at the end. 245 is in the way for the deployment.

If you look VERY close you can watch it work. The bridge lifts, THEN the robots push forward a little, and then it retracts back up. Suggesting they used their deployment device to level themselves with the bridge, bumped the robots forward just far enough, and then retracted their cylinder.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Zach O

You can watch it retract at the end. 245 is in the way for the deployment.

If you look VERY close you can watch it work. The bridge lifts, THEN the robots push forward a little, and then it retracts back up. Suggesting they used their deployment device to level themselves with the bridge, bumped the robots forward just far enough, and then retracted their cylinder.

Smart money would be on them having a sensor on the end to tell how well balanced the bridge is.

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Smart money would be on them having a sensor on the end to tell how well balanced the bridge is.

Using sensors, my guess is it's hard to tell "how well" the bridge is balanced. Unless you can figure out the force being exerted on the cylinder, I suppose. A gyro would return you that you're level the moment you went up, regardless if the bridge would balanced if they brought the cylinder up. However, if you can judge the moment when the bridge truly levels out and the cylinder does less work than before, you could automatically decide when to bring up the cylinder.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Zach O

Using sensors, my guess is it's hard to tell "how well" the bridge is balanced. Unless you can figure out the force being exerted on the cylinder, I suppose.

There's a Sensor for that. It's called a Load Cell. They can be pretty useful in the right application. Like digital scales and such.