Team 25 2008 Unveiling

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by IbleedPink233

What's the drive train setup?
Obviously, 6 big (custom?) wheels. I was confused as to how many CIM's you have on the drive.
Also, I was wondering what's the top speed - I'm guessing about 10 ft/sec.

Oh yeah, awesome bot. Very impressive control over hurdling. I was also impressed by the diagonal hurdle today at Jersey.
Can't wait to see you guys in Hawaii.

The drive has 2 CIMS, 2 FP and the 2 Banebots motors- overall six motor drive. The hurler mechanism uses 2 CIMs with Bosch gearboxes. Our floor speed is about 10.6 FPS but we rarely got to go that fast in the traffic.

We had 2 interesting problems today = both of which we hope we have solved for tomorrow. First- the overpass is way below spec and is sagging more each round. At mid spots it is only 76 " from the floor so our plan of clipping the ball ended up with us smashing the clipper arm and needing to make repairs. We have some good ideas for tomorrow.

Our IR system was acting really strange. In the pits we got tremendous response from it- no care in the world. On the field it would cut out and act erratic. It turns out the IR lap counter emitter on the robot was right next to the system receiver and was interfering. With the power to the emitter off it worked beautifully. So we took steps to fix that for the morning too. A trial run worked just right.

So essentially all our "problems" from the day were due to factors from the field and not the robots themselves. Tomorrow will be fun.

WC