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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

Here's one of our drive modules for this year its got two wheels and both are connected by chain...that's all i'll say for now oh and one on each corner of our robot
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

Is it 4 wheel drive or 8 wheel? What I'm asking is will the lawnmower tires and the skyways be touching the ground at once or will the assembly pivot so you could have only the lawnmower or skyways? I imagine you chose the lawnmower wheels to have more grip for climbing.

Or maybe you're planning on mowing the lawn with your robot after competition? A robotic lawnmower!
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

Right now its 6wheel drive, 2 of the assemblies only have one wheel in them, and yes the assembly pivots



edit: originally we planned for 8 wheels but took out a 7th and 8th wheel due to weight (our biggest enemy this year)
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

My guess would be that those modules themselves actually rotate. Put down the slick wheels for turning, the beefy ones for pushing, and rotating them climbs the step too. We considered something similar to this, but decided against it for weight reasons.
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

you could mill a TON of weight out of that aluminum plate, maybe on all 4 you could remove a lot of it and be able to put all 8 original wheels back in. just a suggestion
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

Ya we thought about takin out some pieces. Those two-wheel module weigh about 6.7 lbs and the other ones weigh only 6, only problem is we don't have much time to take and mill out some weight and the structural integrity of those is really important
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

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you could mill a TON of weight out of that aluminum plate, maybe on all 4 you could remove a lot of it and be able to put all 8 original wheels back in. just a suggestion
The loss of structural integrity compared to the weight gained is not worth it.. WE milled out 1 fork panel.. ( more like speed wholes.. but they were big ones :-\ ) and we lost less than .1 lbs

I don't disagree we could use some weight. But when it comes down to it.. its not really a ton

It was barely noticeable
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

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The loss of structural integrity compared to the weight gained is not worth it.. WE milled out 1 sprocket.. ( more like speed wholes.. but they were big ones :-\ ) and we lost less than .1 lbs

I don't disagree we could use some weight. But when it comes down to it.. its not really a ton

It was barely noticeable
You could remove a considerable amount of mass from each of those plates while doing relatively little to change the structural integrity of the design.

Think about bridges, for example. Trusses support immense load, yet they're largely open space. Cutting a similar pattern of triangles into plates such as yours is often an effective way of reducing weight while maintaining strength.
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

We replaced a 3/16 solid plate with 1/8 lasercut and sides bent down and it is 2 lbs lighter. It is still just as strong. We replaced another 3/16 solid plate with a 1/8 solid plate with sides bent down and saved 1.25 lbs there. We replaced the 1/2" di steel hook with a 3/8" di steel hook and saved about 2 lbs there. We replaced the .125 sheet metal pivoting arm with one made from .063 and there is only one place where it flexes where we just added a little .063 thick brace. Saved abotu 2 lbs on that. We chopped down our window motor/arm mounts and cut the $^#% out of the 3/16 mounting plates and saved about another 2 lbs there. We removed the van door motor mount completely and lightened the U-pillow block and saved about .5 lb there.

We also lightened everything we could from the start (axles, gears, sprockets, shaft collars) Without the hanger, our robot is basically the same as last year's, except about 35 lbs lighter. I'd say we did a good job with lightening. You will see strategically placed cutouts and bends and a well chosen material thickness, not a whole bunch of speed holes.

A lot of times in FIRST the strength of a component is largely underestimated and the forces applied to that component are largely underestimated. Sure it is cool to have a robot built like a tank but when it is 130lbs and all it does is drive, that is not cool.

You don't always need thick material to get the job done. Throw in a couple bends and it makes it a lot stronger.

Our battery/compressor tray is only .040 thick but it doesn't flex because it has bends.

Over the off-season, each team should really assess the strength of each component and try re-making it out of a thinner material or with more cutouts.
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it's amazing how simalar those are to ours.....


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it's amazing how simalar those are to ours.....


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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

From what i have seen you guys 73, us 710, and 258 have a similar design with the "gurney" style drive.
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Re: pic: Team 710 Drive module

Well except for the fact that have a considerable amount of spacers running through the centers where these designs would be cut out. And we did run into problem withs spherical our cuts weakening the system. Infact the forks we milled where the only ones we had problems with

I was not saying that it couldn't be done.

I was saying that the difference in the weight made is basically nothing. its 3/16th alluminum and we could cut out a max of about 1x2 inches. Weighing only a few grams. ( to be exact its about 0.0360 lbs per piece )

If it had been better designed in the beggining when those parts were designed it could have been designed with the cut outs inplace. But with our current system it can not be done with enough effectiveness to cause reason to do it. But again, the extra work done on it, and the weight gained we felt were too minute to deal with under our certain time restraints.

THanks for the advice tho keep it coming

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