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Strecher Problems!

Posted by Kyle Fenton at 2/19/2001 11:48 AM EST


Student on team #121, Islanders, from Middletown High School and NUWC.



Can any team tow the stretcher with a robot on it
that can make it over the bridge, alone?

I have seen and heard that towing the stretcher is
hard for a number of reasons.

1. Its heavy, you have to have a tough enough
machine that can tow it just on the floor.

2. The stretcher is almost the same width as the
ramp, so as a result you have to be pin-point
accurate, otherwise a wheel will fall off the side
and it would be stuck.

3. You can't take the stretcher under or over the bar.

4. Finally, most of the time, the stretcher w/ a robot
has more weight than your robot, So even if you get
your robot to the edge of the other side of the
bridge, the bridge would not flip over to the other
side.

5. The robot can easily fall off the stretcher. In the
end not getting up at all.

The only solution I have figured out is that some
robot has to first be on the other side and push us
down, or a robot on the other side lifts us up, so
the bridge flips over.

This however would take 3 out of the 4 robots time
out of the competition, just for 10 points. I would
rather get 10 small balls or one big ball, to make
up for that. And the robot balancer would take one
or two goals to get the multiplier, and the multiplier
for stopping the match ahead of time. That is
where you are going to get the big points.

However getting back to the stretcher, if a team
plans smartly, and only puts a metal bar or
something light on the stretcher, and not their
entire robot. It would be very possible to get us 10
points.

So the best solution, only use the stretcher when
you have to. If you have to use the stretcher, take a
spike or a metal bar from your robot, and strap it
down with duct tape.



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