pic: Team 4143- Mars Wars- 2015

[RyanShoff]

Originally Posted by Zaque

What thought process led you to choose three separate fork systems instead of one?

This robot was originally designed to lift 2 totes side by side from the handles. It had 4 bars with 2 handle hooks each. The plan was to make two 4 stacks at a time from the landfill. It was actually bagged like that. We made two robots. In after bag-day driver practice, we decided it was too difficult to hook two totes at the same time from the handles consistently.

So our thought process was: How can we fix this thing? We prototyped the forks and immediately saw the potential. We kept on iterating and eventually ended up with a pretty sound robot.

Interesting note: both of these robots will be competing side-by-side at http://www.gatewayroboticschallenge.com