14" Bar Stragtegies?

[SwissCommunist]

Can anyone see any great, highly useful, strategies for a robot small enough to fit underneath the 14" clearence of the bars on the sides of the ramp?

It would give you more ways to get across, but the alley is rather small and difficult for the drivers to manuver through...

It would also be difficult to get crates OVER...

AND it makes design of the robot much more compact than a robot over 14", that would ignore the whole under 14" strategy.

BUT you can get over to the other side if the ramp is somehow blocked, either by a robot or some freak crate stack *highly improbable*

THOUGH it is a 12 foot span that only one robot cannot block with great accuracy (in my estimate).

It would be a fast robot, able to smash other people's stacks, but any robot can do that.... plus it would result in low scores for everyone.

Plus if you want to have a stacker device to stack crates, it will be very difficult to fit it into that small a chassis.

My team has been discussing this thoroughly and this is what we came up with. I'd love some feedback.

N. Horton
TEAM 840