4536 Climbing Test

[daliberator]

Originally Posted by Harman341

What other ways does your robot score points? If hanging is your bread and butter you're fine with a 20 second climb. If you can score goals every 30 seconds, maybe you have to worry about the lost time a bit more.

About a third of the time spent "hanging" was the robot driving to the bar after the hook was elevated. You may want to redesign that hook so you can just drive into the wall and raise the hook straight into the bar. Maybe some kind of latch or over center locking mechanism?

Thanks for the advice! As Caleb mentioned above, our secondary driver wasn't around when we recorded this, so we took longer than usual to get in position. That being said, you make a good point about the hook geometry. We're always looking to improve, so we'll see what we can do to make it better.