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Re: Self righting
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Originally Posted by the man
I dont think righting your self will be very important. One how offten are you going over the bump? And two if you are fliped durring the finaly you most likely wont have time to right your self and hang.
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Self righting is ALWAYS a good idea. In 8 years of mentoring I have seen more robot flip on a completely level field and take an alliance out of being competitive than I can count. For this reason I make sure all of my teams robots have a CG designed to be less than 4 inches off the ground when possible.
IMHO either make your robot unflipable or give yourself a way to right your robot otherwise you will regret it.
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FIRST is difficult and it is challenging, but you aren’t necessarily required to go off and build an 8 motor drivetrain and 4 motor / 8 pneumatic piston arm mechanism for the heck of it when a 2 motor non-shifting drivetrain and 2 motor arm does just as good a job. - Bill Gold [more] 
19-02-2010, 09:10
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