Galileo 2012!

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by slijin

Looks nice!

Was there a reason you never tried reversing the orientations of one of the long bots so that the CG was closer to the center than the edge?

3193's weight is actually front-biased a bit, so they were in the proper orientation. Note what happened whenever we applied forward force to the center robot later in the video - which way did 3193 tilt?

They do not have a stinger or bridge tender in the rear of their bot. There is actually not much at all back there - the internal guts of their bot are laid out very differently from ours. Plus the pivoting arms let either of us shift the CG further toward the front.

They might have had a similar result driving up backwards and tilting their arm all the way back, but I think we prefer this configuration; plus it was more symmetric and therefore looked cooler!

48's CG is very slightly rear of center, but with the stinger, we kinda need to be pointing that way. As you can see, we can hang quite a bit of the rear bot off the bridge and be comfortably balanced. Tilting the arm forward helps with stability. You can be assured we'll be pushing ours as far forward as possible, into contact with the center bot during any triple opportunities - we promise we'll be gentle!

For the record, the center "bot" in practice (donated by Team 46 ) was close to a max length 28" widebot frame.