Your theory vs. your capability

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Your theory vs. your capability

View Poll Results: Theory to real
Theory to real was a flawless transition	11	26.83%
We've had some real-world issues, but have worked around them	25	60.98%
We're scrapping some things that went majorly wrong	3	7.32%
Um...antigravity didn't work out, and that was our entire robot.	2	4.88%
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22-02-2005, 18:12

Petey

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Re: Your theory vs. your capability

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Originally Posted by Rick TYler

* Our mechanism appears to be bullet-proof, as we went through a couple of hours of driving on Saturday without a failure (this is what you get by allowing a 4x safety factor on your torque calculations).
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Lucky you.

We allowed a 20% margin of error on one joint of the arm and it turned out to still be too weak.

I think we worked a fix though.

--Petey

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