Storing Tetras on Robot

[ZoNeGuY]

Thats alot of weight for 6+......
IF you store enough AND manage to cap, then go ahead.

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Garrix

It will be quite difficult to hold multiple tetras on your robot because the tetra is almost as large as most robots, and tetras weigh 9 lbs each. If you have a stack of tetras on your robot, you will have balance issues.

Not necessarily--

Consider the fact that, if you can store them to the "rear" of your robot (rear being defined as the end that is not the home of your grabber/forklift/arm device), you could conceivably use your tetras as an easy counterbalance that doesn't factor into your weight requirement.

I do not see what the problem is of having one of you alliance partners (going to and fro from the loading zones)and keep on feeding your robot tetras in a stack on the ground. The opposing team really couldn't steal the tetras because they are color coordinated... well they could just throw them out of the field, but that would be just plain mean, and not gracious professionalism.

This is not unlike the strategy our bot used last year--we were an extremely efficient ball feeder, and scored well because of it.

I do believe that it will be difficult to work on the field this year. With the weight and loading stations--not to mention the new paradigm offered by the addition of another team on a field that is, essentially, the same size as last year--I think we're going to see extremely complex on-field dynamics.

--Petey

[preussrobotics]

Our goal is to hold at least a few to limit transit time. If worse comes to worse, though (i.e. weight or control problems) then we'll just do one at a time.

[Sakura141]

Our team just put together a tetra the other day, and we figured out that it would be harder to hold more than 2 tetra's at a time because of the power and everything.

[Xufer]

Originally Posted by Sakura141

Our team just put together a tetra the other day, and we figured out that it would be harder to hold more than 2 tetra's at a time because of the power and everything.

Do you have any statistics or testing to back that up ? Im really wondering how much of a load its going to add, and how fast we will be able to move with a load.

[Sakura141]

We tested a few of our prototypes that we put together. Bob the Builder (That's his nickname) helped us with the calculations and all of that. We worked our way through that last Thursday. We have our results written in our Design/ Fabrication logbook.

[oreocookeee]

i like the idea of teamwork between robots. one could load them from the stations, stack them, and then pass them to another robot to cap a goal. while one is capping, the other is loading. i think it would be feasible to stack 2-3 tetras on the robot at roughly the same hight as the loading platform so that most cappers would be able to pick them up. put the third robot on defense, and theres a wholesome strategy.

[Anchi]

we are looking at about 4 'hands' right now. 2 of which could hold more than one(2 loaded my a human). we looked at makign somehting to hold them and it seemed liek it would take too much room, so we are just gunna use 1 or 2.