[FTC]: Opinion on lifting robots

[ksafin]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

You need to have a score to be doubled... In which case you need a robot that can not only sort rings, and score them on the corner post but also a robot that can score on the center posts.

In the perfect alliance I see on robot which can lift other robots and sort rings... While the other robot concentrates on the center posts. In the end game one robots lifts the other, it really all depends on how efficiently you can score rings.

I know you need a score to be doubled.

I really don't see any reason for not having a robot that can't differentiate between the two rings. If you grab it with a small claw that's about the size of a diameter, have a "subclaw" of that claw. Hard to explain in text, but here:



You just have a subclaw within a claw. You grab the rings with the top part of the claw, but the sub claw has a tolerance of 2 oz (this can be made more) and if the rings is heavier it will drop. Easy indicator of the weight and it takes little to no space in an existing claw.