IRI - 2014 Team Invitations

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Pretzel

To add to that, it would be interesting to put an accelerometer on the robots to see how forceful the impact of a collision between robots is. I would imagine that it can get quite high, in terms of g-forces, but I could also be completely wrong.

We did this back in 2003 so our robot could sense collisions in autonomous and shift to low gear to push (you'll have to find some videos of 2003 to see why this was important that year).

Back then there were no bumpers on robots so the collisions easily saturated the 100G accelerometer we were using. I would love to repeat this with bumpers.