A Real BALANCING Act !?

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Posted by KeithL at 1/9/2001 3:05 AM EST


Other from the CHAOS131 alumni. What will the future bring?...



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What are the chances of using gyro sensors to automatically adjust for balancing on the ramp?? Is it a possiblitly? Hmmmmm............. Whatdya think?

-Keith L.

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Posted by Ken Leung at 1/9/2001 5:44 AM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


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Posted by KeithL on 1/9/2001 3:05 AM EST:



It is certainly a possibility to use the gyro to balance. And since you are measuring the change of angular velocity, you can do a pretty good estimate along with some other helping out device. The issue is to build a rather delicate/perfect machine that can control its motion really well. You want to be slow to be balancing.

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Posted by Chris Casinghino at 1/9/2001 4:13 PM EST


Student on team #131, CHAOS, from Manchester Central High School and OSRAM Sylvania.


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Posted by KeithL on 1/9/2001 3:05 AM EST:



I will be surprised if we don't see quite a few teams that are able to do this. The programming to make the robot balance the ramp at the push of a button would really not be that complex of a thing... I think that the ability to have the machine do this by itself will be something that many teams see as important and decide to implement in their robots.

--Chris Casinghino

: What are the chances of using gyro sensors to automatically adjust for balancing on the ramp?? Is it a possiblitly? Hmmmmm............. Whatdya think?

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Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/9/2001 10:09 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


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Posted by Chris Casinghino on 1/9/2001 4:13 PM EST:



The idea is sound. What remains for me to learn is
just how difficult it will be in actual practice. I
can see many teams hitting the "balance the sea-saw"
button, only to see their robot go insane and drive a
double-double and a bunch of points off a cliff!

We shall see how easy theory becomes practice.

Joe J.

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Posted by Ken Leung at 1/10/2001 2:09 AM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


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Posted by Joe Johnson on 1/9/2001 10:09 PM EST:



This is the reason for the stop button at the player station. I bet they predicted that robots are going to go crazy as the program wasn't good enough for certain variables. I can imagine the drive train become uncontrolable, robot crashing into other robots and/or field barrier. Safety will be a huge concern, especially during practice round when people are in the field. But then they come up with the stop button, and clevely add it into the scoring system, making the whole game a lot more interesting.

Pretty nice...