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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas
Did you think of a better way to get around the joints than the 3 actuated hooks we thought up?
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Responding to dheerm here. Maybe I am missing something with this climber idea. But when you start the climb and leave the ground you cannot be touching that second horizontal rung. So doesn't your robot just swing outwards and become vertical again? We've been toying with ideas along this line for two days and cannot see how to reliably keep the bot from kicking back out vertical once you leave the ground (and therefore touch the ground again - which prevents you from grabbing that second rung).
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with the inchworm idea, you have two separate but identical grabbers at the bottom of the robot, that the robot can sit back on and hang while the puling arm repositions itself. when the upper grabber hits the knuckle, it retracts, and the robot rests on the lower grabber. Then, when the lower grabber hits the knuckle, the upper one comes back, and the lower one retracts. We also "sit" on these, similar to the way the sliding, pump handle clamps prevent from opening, while the raising arm repositions itself.
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I'm thinking that a groove down the center of the robot with a belt on each side with floating sprockets at the front and back will be a good way of keeping the robot close to the pole. I've detailed elsewhere in this thread more of what would be on each belt, but a floating sprocket could be considerably helpful.
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Either style works. The best way to climb the outside is probably on the corners. However, you must prevent yourself from spinning around on the pole.
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What about using the rungs? A robot with two extendable arms and hooks, each on a rotating "shoulder" joint? Think monkey bars.
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We were thinking skis on the sides of the corner climber, that ride on the horizontals.
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How would you hold the robot on as it's climbing?
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Here's an idea I happened to think of:
Use two vertical and sliding rails, the could be pivoted out at the same angle as the pyramid (either 68 degrees or 60 degrees). The ends of the rails would have a hook that was spring loaded and could collapse inward when pushed from the top, but hold rigid when pushed from below. Similar to rung lock mechanism on an extension ladder: To start, one would drive to the pyramid, swing out the rails, and raise one rail so the hook would ratchet into the rail when it hit the rung, slide past, pop out, and grasp the rung. Then that rail would be retracted back, lifting the robot base. This process would be repeated for the second rail to reach the second rung, and then again with the first rail to reach the third rung. A ratchet/anti-backdrive system would be in the drive for the rails, to reduce load on the motors and to keep the robot up when the match was over. Just a thought I had. I haven't been on a robot design committee for a couple years but my mind still is in the "habit". |
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You could use a ratchet system, or you could use a worm drive, which could be reversed if need be. That is what out design requires. Or helical gears.
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To limit post size I won't go into all of the details again, but early on (like page one or two of this thread) I described it a little better and linked to a Youtube video that shows his inspiration. Essentially though he did not need to worry because all of the climbing mechanism was underneath the robot and the bumpers could be mounted above it.
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Not to mention that all outputs are disabled when the match ends and I think such a device is required to be controlled by the cRIO. |
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Our team did tank treads for Breakaway (2010). Powerful, couldn't be pushed, and always went over the bumps. But not very fast.
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