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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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