Team 842's drivetrain for FIRST Stronghold!

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Originally Posted by Bruceb

watch your bumper zone.
When one wheel goes up the other goes down increasing the height to your bumper.

Originally Posted by T3_1565

how much do the wheels move up and down from your pivot? It seems like +/- 4 inches of movement? Maybe they move freely and have no hard top or bottom in their range?

I love it. Its good to see an "out-of-the-box" solution!

There are hard stops for the travel on all of the wheels, and travel can be limited without much trouble. I believe the largest amount of travel for a wheel on the rocker is just under 2". The nature of the rocking mechanism gives the wheels a lot of travel relative to each other without moving the frame very much. (If we lift the front wheel 3" off the ground, the frame only raises about 1.5")

We're intending to show the inspectors that the robot will sit on flat ground with any orientation of the suspension and keep the bumpers within the bumper zones. This should satisfy R22 without question, but we'll also bring our team's best lawyer just in case.