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Unread 10-02-2002, 22:11
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Team 871/Grippers

Heh....it's great to see all the amazing gripper designs out there....some teams put so much work and thought into designing something that will work well....although we are a rookie team, it seems that many teams forget the basic rule of thumb: K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)

Our gripper design is extremely simple...at first glance you may not even realize that it's a gripper or how it would work. I dont have any completed pictures right now, but I will take some pictures tomorrow to post up here....it is an almost guaranteed grip every single time regardless of our position/angle to the goal...i've seen so many teams over-engineer their gripper, and they need to be lined up correctly in order to grab the goal, heh....

well, I'll post up some pics tomorrow afternoon....and you'll also get to see our "mean wheels," shined aluminum sides (not to be mistaken for mirrors ), and bumpers (are other teams even using bumpers??....I havent seen any in any pictures yet )

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Unread 10-02-2002, 22:21
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Preview

well, here is a picture from about a week ago....MUCH has changed since then....our bot was half-dissasembled at this point....
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No bumpers cause we are still (at last I knew) 25 lbs overweight.
And you are right, I don't see how the hook works. Unless there is part of the mechanism missing...
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Gripper Assembly

OK well, here is a picture of our gripper as of today...it was mounted earlier, but we had to remove it to let some epoxy set....But just picture this at the end of the cylinders in the above picture... How much simpler could you get?? And it's guaranteed to work

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i can't believe our team didn't think of that that is soo simple i had thought that we had the most simple deign possible but i guess not oh well. Nice job anyways and good thinking
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Re: Gripper Assembly

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OK well, here is a picture of our gripper as of today...it was mounted earlier, but we had to remove it to let some epoxy set....But just picture this at the end of the cylinders in the above picture... How much simpler could you get?? And it's guaranteed to work

NOTHING is guaranteed to work . In the pits, it works fine, but in the two minutes it takes to get to the playing field, it decides not to work . It happens.
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This is my fourth year in the competition, and if there is one thing i've learned is that there is never a simple solution to such a complex problem. There are many approaches to solving the problem of latching on to the goal and doing it well is a whole other subject. Many teams last year successful manufactured simple gripping devices and had a mixture of both success and failure.

After last years competition, my team decided to invest in a little down-time construction of a test platform of a gripping device that would latch on to something like a small vertical pole. We tried your design, almost exactly. And we realized one thing, simple isn't always the best. The geometry of the design and the nature of the game does not allow for an easy time in grabbing on to the goals. The success of the design was so variable that we decided against anything close to it this year. I encourage your team to do some bizzare testing. Try to latch on to the goal while a student is moving it around. Try to latch onto the goal when your driver is 48 feet away. You might discover that an almost religious pursuit of the K.I.S.S principle leaves your team with a very simple robot that can't compete.
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Smile w00t!

Ok, well we've been done for a few days now.....just been tweaking things a little so I havent been able to get a completed picture until now......Keep in mind that this is a rookie team, without a machine shop (all we have are a few old lathes and drill presses), and without any corporate engineering sponsors

....and look at the shiny sides

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well hell, we did it from 48 ft son, and i got it down. wait until gametime, hahahahahah- DJSKRABL22 (hahahahahahahahaha)
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Not simple Design

Here is our 'not simple' goal grabbing design
K.I.S.S. didn't work for us

The linkage collapses to go into a goal (the point allows it to find the area between the goals if we happen to hit a post) then springs back to form the diamond inside of the bars, at this point it is latched in. To release the pressure is now on the bars facing the robot and a latch restricts the outward facing bars from compressing outward. A servo pulls the finger latch out of the way and allows us to release from the goal. It is incedibly strong as you can see from the picture( 3 parallel pieces of Bosch rail capped by six inch x 1/4" aluminum and it telescopes in and out). One of our strategies is that of a dog playing tug of war that almost rips your arm off. We latch on then start driving sideways back and forth (4 wheel crab steer 12 ft/sec) to rotate the goals in your gripper. Non-robust grippers will be bent almost immediately.
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Non-robust grippers will be bent almost immediately.

.......real nice...
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Just like tug-of war with a dog......

You can always let go

Seriously it's only one of the strategies that we have found work with our setup. We don't have a robot with big forks on the side that grip your robot and pull it to our zone like some others I have seen. We don't have 10 motor tank drive either so we probably won't win pulling matches either against those types of robots. We do have an extremely fast robot with interlocked 4 wheel steering that has much drive time on it. How rough this game gets this year depends on the other teams. If everyone wants to be nice we will be very nice, but if people start doing full speed runs into robots (including ours) with the goal catchers and the refs don't cool it down, things WILL get ugly this year.

Before anyone gets bent out of shape (j/k) we know this isn't Battlebots and we need to be gracious but how do you graciously take a goal from someone? Without using force be it dragging their robot to a new zone or attempting to free it from their gripper?

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Ours is pretty simple....

Yea... here's ours...

93's grabber

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That's what I'm talking about!

That looks like a 'robust' design, nice.

Is it like ours where you drive straight in and when it gets past the bars its automatically sprung back and latched like it looks like it is?
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