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Originally Posted by vivek16
Look, all the ideas with fans:
Why not take your 200 pounds of force going downwards, point that to a side, and use it as a means of propulsion? It would certainly be a lot more efficient than using the force to increase the traction (it will still be low traction).
-Vivek
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The 200 pounds of force comes from the fact that it is a vacuum creating pressure underneath the robot so in a 10x10 area with 1 psi (pound per square inch) you would have 100 pounds of force. You would not have nearly the same force from simply the fan on the side.
However we calculated that it would only take 7 pounds of force applied from the side to start a robot moving sliding sooo...
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04-01-2009, 17:21
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