Image Discuss: 217 with bins

[Edward Debler]

Originally posted by David Lantz
Very nice. I like the stacking ablility. It seems that you also have some sort of wing on the front/back of the robot. Do you also plan to knock down boxes at the begining or will you be strickly orented towards stacking?

Actually, we have (2) wings on the (rear of the robot) that fold down during the autonomous mode using (2) pneumatic cylinders. We start by driving the robot up the ramp (autonomously) with the rear of the robot going up first since the rear also has the steering wheels. by the time the robot (and wings) contact the bins, they are fully deployed (total of 10 feet wide). When we regain operator control of the robot, we will go to our scoring zone to begin stacking bins. We can lift and securely retain a pre-existing 3 bin stack then lift another 3 bin stack, etc. We can also pick-up 1 bin at a time from the floor.

There are (2) other photos in this photo gallery that show the wings.