Whegs, PID, and climbing

[Adam Y.]

Shame no one did it this year, because if they'd coupled it with good bar-blocking and on-bar capping they' would've been unstoppable. Ah, hindsigh

Nope a team did use whegs this year. I remeber a team that had a team whose robot had extremely funky looking wheels that helped them reach the top of the ramp. I don't remeber which team though. They did quite wheel from what I remeber since they were in the alliance rounds of Newton I believe.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Nope a team did use whegs this year. I remeber a team that had a team whose robot had extremely funky looking wheels that helped them reach the top of the ramp. I don't remeber which team though. They did quite wheel from what I remeber since they were in the alliance rounds of Newton I believe.

Cool! Anyone who finds a pic gets... uh

reputation!

[ngreen]

Was it whegs or was it like 1218's tri wheels(sorry, don't have pic. NOW I DO? They made the finals on Einstein with tri wheels. I didn't see any whegs though.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=6823

[Adam Y.]

Was it whegs or was it like 1218's tri wheels(sorry, don't have pic. NOW I DO? They made the finals on Einstein with tri wheels. I didn't see any whegs though.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/p...ngle&picid=6823

Nah I remeber some funky looking wheels though I did like that design. I can narrow it down to the robots on the Newton field and the ones that advanced to the final rounds. It reminded me of a Segway for some reason.

[phrontist]

Thanks for the pic of the Tri-Wheels, but I'm still looking for whegs

[Salik Syed]

The link doesn't seem to work it always says Cannot find server...ne ways what is whegs? oblong wheels or something

[Max Lobovsky]

They are basically just three-spokes-without-a-rim-for-a-wheel. I'm not exactly sure why everyone finds them so interesting. Can't the exact same thing be done with a wheel with large lateral treads? (like the paddle treaded tires that monster trucks and such use for very loose terrain)

[abeD]

Team 341 maybe? they had small tri-wheels

here is 269's triwheel http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=6185&direction =ASC&sort=date&perrow=10&trows=10&quiet=Quiet

correction: not 341 but 340 here is a pic

[OneAngryDaisy]

Originally Posted by abeD

Team 341 maybe? they had small tri-wheels

here is 269's triwheel http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&action=single&picid=6185&direction =ASC&sort=date&perrow=10&trows=10&quiet=Quiet

You might be thinking of 1218- we didn't have triwheels..


I'm not 100% sure of what a wheg is, but team 16 had a awesome cam system (metal plate) that would lift them off the ground and on the platform, it looks like something that could be called a wheg, so...