Staying on the Batter at the end of the match

FIRST General Forum
1

How are teams planning on ensuring that their robots don’t roll backwards off the Batter after the end of the match when power is killed? There is a 3/4 inch cleat there, but not sure that is going to stop this year’s robots.

This assumes, of course, that you are not hanging

2

Setting your motor controllers to brake mode at the end ought to do it

3

That might help a little, but it will not hold the robot still. Brake mode depends on the motor generating a back EMF which they don’t do at zero speed.