Robots Tipping Over

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

for those of us who remember, Tipping five years ago was almost an every match occurance. I honestly miss robots tipping over, those were the days...

I don't really. A high C.G. cost my team a shot at the finals. Having a little interaction involving another robot and the step didn't help...

Yeah, we had a high CG and a wheelie bar, and still went over at least 4-5 times. One was a fall off the bar. One was a run-in with the border. Two were caused by robot interaction (and one of those, we were about to get up, but the robot came back, tipped us onto our side, and shoved us into a ball corral).

The fun part was the next year. We had wedges on our sides and a flat traction-reducing plate on the back. The one time we tipped was high entanglement, and we went over backwards. The fall freed us, and the next thing you know, we're stacking away.

Yet it's a bit more exciting when a robot is about to go down and doesn't, or goes down and gets back up...

And back on topic, I don't remember a single robot tipping this year.