The Golden Rules of Robotics

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I posted what I think are some of the Golden Rules for intake design.

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Remember these Golden Rules for roller intakes: Surface speed of roller at least 2 * robot max speed If driving towards an object at max speed, you still need to be able to have net positive intaking speed The 2* or more is needed because with a single top roller, the object will be rolling, so middle of object has speed V getting pushed, 0 at carpet (assuming in worst case no slip condition) and 2*V at top of object Surface speed = motor free speed RPM * 80% (efficiency) * gear ratio * roll…

Some replies in that thread have good additions.