2972 Self Correcting After Tipping

[jagoldman]

Hey everyone,

My team, RC Dawson 2972, competed in Rock City Regional. In one of the matches, our robot was delivering a tote for the 40 co-op points. In the process, we tipped over. Luckily, Our turret was in the right spot at the right time and we were able to right ourselves with the elevator.

I thought that this video was cool and I wanted to share it with everyone!

We will be posting some more about our robot this year soon!


Jacob Goldman
Design and Mechanical Lead
RC Dawson 2972

[g_sawchuk]

We're going down, we're yelling timber...oh wait, no we're not. Nice maneuver.

[jagoldman]

Thanks! The announcer was yelling that we were going down and then freaked out when we got back up. But you summed it up pretty well.

[DarkRune]

I fell into a burning ring of totes,
I went down, down, down, as the stacks grew higher,
And it stacks, stacks, stacks,
The ring of totes, the ring of totes

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by jagoldman

Hey everyone,

My team, RC Dawson 2972, competed in Rock City Regional. In one of the matches, our robot was delivering a tote for the 40 co-op points. In the process, we tipped over. Luckily, Our turret was in the right spot at the right time and we were able to right ourselves with the elevator.

I thought that this video was cool and I wanted to share it with everyone!

We will be posting some more about our robot this year soon!


Jacob Goldman
Design and Mechanical Lead
RC Dawson 2972

A vaguely similar thing happened to us in QF6 at Kentwood. Video (about 1:30 to 1:45), watch the bottom-right robot. We were trying to dislodge a tote when we basically managed a "front" wheelie. Though, we didn't recover quite so gracefully.

[jagoldman]

Thats a nice maneuver. Right after the video ends, we were attempting to get the fourth tote for co-op, but it was pushed up against a fallen robot. We got one side of our gripper stuck in the other robot and we were not able to get the co-op in time. Im excited (and a little pained) to see the pictures of damaged robots that weren't as fortunate as my team's robot and your robot.

I have already seen some arms snap off.