1189 - Human-Bot Arm Control

[ALIBI]

Your arm controler was absolutely amazing! Our pit was right in front of the practice field at West Michigan. I could not help but wonder what would happen to the robot if your operator had to sneeze! We use a pot on our arm with a really slick coupling. It has a a shaft collar on both ends and a spiral of the same material with maybe a dozen spirals like a spring between them. Since we started using this we have not blown a pot and have not have any problems with the feedback (knock on wood). The coupling also gives flexability between the shaft and pot. All I know about them is that we purchased them from McMaster for about $30 a piece and that they can be found under 'shaft collars.' They look like they are made of black plastic.