How does Your ramp/lift work?

[Cody Carey]

I was making a polished animation of our ramp and how it works for display at regionals, when I realized that maybe we were unique with the way we did the lifting. I'm just wondering how your team's ramp/lift works.



Our robot is a "teeter-totter" on wheels. We use the weight of one robot to offset the weight of another, so that when we do have to actively lift another 'bot, we'll only have to lift 10-15lbd of their weight... which is easily done with a single pneumatic piston. We should only have to actively lift someone when the weight difference is very high between the robots, and the lighter one gets on first; which we will try to avoid through strategy at the beginning of the match.

Here's the (almost) final pit animation.