Climbing Mechanism Ideas

[dheerm]

Originally Posted by escime

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).

I didn't think of that. Even if we used a top heavy robot, it would just keep spinning till it fell. Unless maybe this robot was designed so perfectly that the conveyor belt with hooks on it immediately grabbed the second rung the moment the robot was lifted off the ground then maybe it could work.