pic: NJ- 103 is going down.

[Dominicano0519]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

What is causing robots to tip over? Riding up on balls? Really hight CG? Changing direction quickly? Other robots pushing them?

it's that most teams put heavy gears and chains and sprockets 5 feet high on their robot( for the shooter) and then when they are going up the ramp that weight is almost horizontal to the ground and then gravity does the rest

also when they ride up a ball they are on a similar angle as when they are going on the ramp so that can cause them to tip over

[vadyr]

haha...thats a very...interesting picture of our bot....we only actually fell over twice i believe...once at phili and once at trenton...thanks to our handy dandy kevlar armor and titanium braced 80-20...we were able to withstand most 10000 foot falls and machine gun fire.