Tipping over.

I think most of the reason there's been a lot of tipping the last couple years (bear with me I'm a sophomore..clueless on before that) is because of the uneven playing field. When you're higher than another part..you can always fall over and then be laying on your back...same on a ramp, if you're pushing another bot, and they happen to have sloped sides...up..and back.
There's always those things about high CG... driving... how you move an arm... such things that can make the robot tip over.
Best to just be careful and hope for good luck

Ellen

[EddieMcD]

Prettymuch all games had a danger element to them when it came to tipping over. This year has the stairs and bar, last year was the "hill", 2001 had the teeter-totter and the 4x4 in the middle, 2000 had the ramp and bar, 1999 had the puck and raising your catch 8 feet, 1998 you had to raise up pretty high to deposit a ball on the 3-point rung, 1997 had the putting an inner tube on top of the spinning goal being a tipping hazard, 1995 had the ramp, 1994 had the tower. Plus, up through 1997, it was perfectly legal to tip an opponent. Really, barring a robot ramming into you with your CoG too high, the only game that had no tipping danger was 2002 (and I suppose 1992 & 1993 when the robots were too small). So yeah, tipping over is prettymuch expected in a FIRST game. The challenge is avoiding it.

[D@ve]

I think with the hole tipping over issue can be solved for many team by just shifting the battery , well for us it helps and for most it might do the same.

Hey give it a try and see what happens. Good luck..


D@VE

[DanArgent]

At VCU, our robot started to go up the steps and started to drive right up the pvc goal posts to fil over. In past matches the posts only diverted the robot around the goal. The differance was we had added a high friction surface (a poped 2x ball) to the arm.

I think one of the major advantages of some teams was the ability to right themselves. our robot for instance couldn't do anything on its back. I did see, however, several good robots that could use their arms to corect their poistion.

[minic@HYPER69]

In the final match of the NH finals I accidentally tiped over team 40's robot and i still feal bad about it. So to team 40 i apologize if any damage was done i was just trying to keep you from hooking.

So no hard feelings?

-Tom

[Solace]

don't feel that bad, last year i accidentally tipped one of our alliance partners. yikes!