Risk of the Lift?

[T3_1565]

True enough. But how many robots are going to be sitting there at that time is what I'm trying to say. How many times would like a robot to sit there the entire match just so you can get on it in the last 15 secs? I mean it will be done, i wasn't saying it wouldn't, all I'm saying is it will take time for the ramp to get set up.

[mizscience]

Good point. I think many people would overlook the possibilty of being dropped if planning on being lifted instead of the one lifting...

[cgdtgurl07]

if they are planning on being lifted they might design the robot so that it can take a little more impact from the bottom (if dropped). But if the lift is designed correctly it probably won't be likely that it will drop a robot. Teams will take the risk into consideration and make it efficient because they wouldn't want to be dropped either.

[team 888]

Originally Posted by Pavan

With this years game there are two main ideas of how to get the robot up either four inches or twelve inches. They are by ramp or by lifting. For those that are lifting and for those that plan to either climb or be lifted, I believe that the lift is much more dangerous. Although with the ramp you have to to keep it in your base and with 2" of clearance due to bumpers you will need to have a small angle thus a longer ramp, it is much more safer. Your robot is always on solid ground. With the lift you are in the air. Are you sure 30 points is worth the risk of your robot falling twelve inches off of the ground? Although I hope this never happens, I think before teams start thinking of being lifted that they should all consider the possibilities both positive and negative. The main one is a robot falling, and today when my team was discussing this I thought of the fact that if you are being lifted up, you are no longer in control of your robot, and that if anything happens your robot will fall. What if it does? Will your team build a more robust robot that can take a twelve inch fall? Will your team prepare for a worst case scenario?

Before you answer keep in mind that six hard weeks of planning, designing, and building went are going to go into your creation.


Pavan.

hi my name is Matt and I think that if you have 1/3 of the robots w/ramps that they will be more valuable than others. I also think that if you have a bot that can be like a tank or a blocker and or some how create a robot with a arm that sits stationary in between your rings and the spider rack and with a pivoting arm meaning that if you create an arm that rotates 180 to 270 degrees that I think would also be valuable