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Re: balancer out there?
Posted by PAUL GIANNOSA at 2/14/2001 11:15 PM EST
Engineer on team #27, TEAM RUSH, from OSMTECH and TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE CO.. In Reply to: balancer out there? Posted by Ken Leung on 2/14/2001 5:15 AM EST: : I've been looking at lots of pictures of other robots, and they don’t seem to me that many of them are particularly built for balancing the bridge. : I mean, I saw a few other robots doing it, such as Wildstang's robot... but most other robot seems to concentrate on grabbing goals or big balls or going under the bar. : Is it that easy to balancing the bridge using just the drive train? Am I missing something about the bridge that makes it easy? : So, my main question is, are there any robot out there specifically built a device that will help balancing the bridge (beside just the drive train)? Hey. coming to you live from the zone of the sleep deprivated. Team 27 has been hard at work developing our 'bot. The core of our strategy is to balance the bridge. We have been driving the chassis -6 wheeler- for about 3 weeks. The rest has taken time. We spent alot of time on the Auotcad tubes and CATIA tubes designing the whole system for a change. Imagine having real prints with real dimensions! Any way, back to the point, forgive me running on 20 min. sleep. We have the "CLAW" to grab the goals. We have the multipurpose arm to support the goal, clear bals from under bridge, and manipulate the bridge as "gatekeeper" via bridge post. The core of the machine is the "moon lander" which grabbs the bridge post, shoots down two 2"x 12" cyclinders which touch the floor. We use them to push the bridge to a balanced position, then use high flutin' gyrotechnics to translate the bot with two goals attached into a free balanced position. once balanced, we pull up the moon lander and hit that little red button with all the fury of 6 weeks of frantic creation can muster into a single swoop of the hand. Ahy! What a mouthful!! We still have to prove out the moonlander, but hey if she don't work we'll see ya in the endzone!! Sheddiing parts on the way!! |
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