Flipped Trailer - Chief Delphi

20-01-2009, 13:52

Vikesrock

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Re: Flipped Trailer

From my unscientific building and playing around with our team version of the trailer it will be MUCH harder to flip than a garbage can.

We had similar issues with trash cans with our human lunacy on the school's linoleum floor, but no such issues whipping the trailer around behind last year's robot.

The CoG of the trailer appears to be pretty low to the ground and the wheelbase is pretty wide. Coupled with the low friction I think these things will be near impossible to tip ( <1 per regional)

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