Brakes

[Don Wright]

Are you talking about brakes to stop your wheels from turning, or a brake like a pad of brecoflex or something to come down so the robot is sitting on it make you hard to move?

Next time you are over here at AVL, let's talk. I have some ideas for you.

[Chris]

Team 229 has brakes,

They are drop down pads front and back that we lower when we get in a good shooting position, or when we are loading up. They originally started out with floor mat material on them (the stuff you put under office chairs on carpet), Then we tried them with Sorbethane (the stuff Beatty used in 2003), and now they have wedgetop on them. We found that all worked better in pushing matches than just our wheels.

I will search for pictures if you’re still interested.

Chris
Team 229

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by Chris

Team 229 has brakes,

They are drop down pads front and back that we lower when we get in a good shooting position, or when we are loading up.

571 has brakes similar to these. They are about 1.5" square of the rubber belt treads attached to a piece of wood on the bottom of a pneumatic cylinder. We have them between our omni's (reverse shopping-cart drive) and they worked really well for us.

We don't have any pictures of this specifically but I'll try and take some Monday at our meeting.

[Wayne C.]

see our pits in Newton at Nationals and we will have a sample to show you.

As Bharat said- we use a servo to drive a pin into the gears of the drive linkage and lock up the whole gear box. The result is 130 lbs of dead weight with 6 wheel traction. You move that you deserve to win.

the idea is simple- but you need to do a little programming to go with it and the work needs to be precise. It is EASY to have the pins tear apart your whole drive train if you dont design properly. And we discovered that when they reset the FIRST fields for a blown match we need to completely reset our auto modes or they engage automatically leaving us sitting there (3 rounds at NJ!!) Servos- gotta love em!

WC

[s_forbes]

Team 842 has some. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/22689