Designing a climbing mechanism for 2013... a humbling experience

[rinim324]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

Do you want an opinion on the legality of it? or whether or not such a mechanism could work?

Either way, we'd need a lot more information about the design.

Whether or not it would work. We actually revised it a little to have 3 stages and a slider peice on the end with hooks attached to it. The robot is designed to be a corner climber. The arm fully retracted fits inside the robot frame but fully extended can reach 38inches. The Arm is fixed on the frame at 60 degrees (The corner posts are 60 degrees relative to the floor not 68 like the sides). We extend the lift arm with a simple pulley mechanism but retract it with a winch that has the cable hooked to the outermost stage and pulls down at 60 dgrees parallel to the The Arm. We also have a wheel mechanism at the bottom of the robot that rides the vertical post as a third point of contact and it is designed to sort of "walk" over the corners of the horizontal bars. Once the arm is retracted fully two sets of hooks mounted to the frame will latch on to the horizontal bar while the arm extends to the next level.

I hope this is the info you would need.