Team 1717 Lift Montage

[rsilverstein]

Greatest lifting robot in the country!

[BBnum3]

Originally Posted by rsilverstein

Greatest lifting robot in the country!

Kind of a bold statement, but one I don't necessarily disagree with.

MAN those lifts are smooth and easy to drive on to. The buzzer lifter aspect is nice, too. It's a shame you aren't going to Atlanta, you deserve to. But hey, there are always off-season competitions to dominate .

[David Brinza]

You're looking at their end-game - they're good on the field for the rest of the match as well.

Off-season?
- Yeah, I could imagine them in the IRI finals...

I was able to get an up-close and personal tour of this fine machine (the kind that inspectors get ). It is an efficient, very well-engineered robot. Congrats, 1717: your team has had a remarkable year. A lot of us would like to see you again on the field again soon (especially as alliance partners).

[rsilverstein]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

You're looking at their end-game - they're good on the field for the rest of the match as well.

Off-season?
- Yeah, I could imagine them in the IRI finals...

I was able to get an up-close and personal tour of this fine machine (the kind that inspectors get ). It is an efficient, very well-engineered robot. Congrats, 1717: your team has had a remarkable year. A lot of us would like to see you again on the field again soon (especially as alliance partners).

Thanks David.
It was great to be at both LA and SD regionals with you guys.
I'm really hoping to be able to go to IRI!!

[cooker52]

What can I say but....
WOW!!!
I wish you guys were going to Atlanta. I would have loved to have seen your robot up close.

[Joe Ross]

It's even more amazing when you consider how many teams with ramps or lifts deferred and let 1717 do the lifting, for example, 1266, 330, 1332, 980, 1566, 696, 1572, 1641, etc.

It's hard enough getting consensus among an alliance, to be the lifter every single time requires a clear superiority.

Great Job!

[sanddrag]

It was our pleasure to keep The Burd's wings up and be lifted by this masterpiece of a robot. Gas shocks FTW!

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

It was our pleasure to keep The Burd's wings up and be lifted by this masterpiece of a robot. Gas shocks FTW!

Thank you very much. You guys have a killer robot, good luck in Atlanta

[wdw_mkr87]

obviously none of you have seen any of the matches from the Las Vegas regional or the VCU regional

Team 1885 had one of the most rock solid and reliable ramps that also had the abilitie to score nearly three or four ringers before deploying there ramps like the military deploys moveable bridges.

They are on there way to Atlanta as i type and are hungary for more wins. after some communication errors in both of the regionals they attended they cannot wait to get back on the field and show everyone how to win this game.

Also they have added many strategist that will be roming the pit areas and watching almost every match to understand the other teams ways of scoring and defending this allows them soke up any possible ways to advance there selves and there alliances to the finals

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by wdw_mkr87

obviously none of you have seen any of the matches from the Las Vegas regional or the VCU regional

Team 1885 had one of the most rock solid and reliable ramps that also had the abilitie to score nearly three or four ringers before deploying there ramps like the military deploys moveable bridges.

Do you have pictures or more importantly - do you have video? Seeing as how we also built a lifting robot, I am interested in hearing more about the details of your design. Also, what were your lifting stats - i.e. How many robots did you lift in qualifying/eliminations? How many bonus points did you score by lifting?

In the mean time, could you describe to me through a post the workings/dynamics/specifications of your lift system.

Ps. Lift robots rule!!!!

Pps. we also had an arm capable of placing 3-4 ringers before returning to deploy our ramps with about 40/35 seconds remaining, these are just vids of the end game...

[wdw_mkr87]

we score in the last 25 to 30 seconds and we have two twelve inch high ramps.

the other teams just need to have a good driver and we should have two robots up every match, in the finals at VCU and Las Vegas and almost every qualyfing match we had robots up on our ramps.

if you want to see our robot go to www.battlefieldrobotics.org or check out sum of the pics at the virginiafirst regional website from the championship day

[Dan Petrovic]

Wow... that is an unbelievably fast lifter. Very impressive.

However, those platforms are a bit flimsy (or at least the supports are), so robots seem to slide around on them.

Do you have any sort of grip tape or something in them?

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Wow... that is an unbelievably fast lifter. Very impressive.

However, those platforms are a bit flimsy (or at least the supports are), so robots seem to slide around on them.

Do you have any sort of grip tape or something in them?

First of all, thanks. Second, I can assure you that the platforms themserves are far from flimsy - they are extremely strong and rigid pvc foam-core composite panels capable of supporting far above the weight of a robot. The "flimsy-ness" you see is the robot rocking gently because of the momentum from the lift. It didn't detract from the strength of our lift at all; it is attributed to an intentional slight tolerance we left between the reverse-mounted gas springs and their housings.

As far as robots sliding around, that is due to the robot wheels rolling and not the "slippery-ness" of the panels. Adding griptape would not have done anything really seeing as how there was no actual sliding occurring.

Our design for keeping robots on was to have the front two gas springs deploy bit earlier to allow the other robots to roll back against a 3" tall rail that ran along the back of each panel. This served to locate each robot we would lift and in no way compromised our lift or made it unstable.

The few instances (1 or 2?) you witnessed a robot roll of were because we had to perform a buzzer lift and our alliance teammates would still be attempting to locate their robot as we lifted. When power was cut, our robot would continue to lift - thanks in large part to the buzzer lift capabilities of the gas springs - however, other robots would lose power to the drivetarin and in one instance that happened when they were still locating themselves and, unfortunately, they rolled off.

Thanks for your questions, I hope I was able to answer them sufficiently. If you have any more, please feel free to ask