X-drive pushbot with high hanging.
8 motor drive high speed
4 motor lift high torque
Robot is fast and can score quickly under the fence. It can knock stars off the fence. Future plans will be to score stars and cubes over the fence without sacrificing the speed of the drive.
Right now, they can knock stars off the fence. They have plans to alter the arm so they can score stars from the ground over the fence and possibly cubes. Their primary strategy for game play is to quickly score under the fence. They can score up to 7 or 8 stars under the fence at a time. They can score cubes under, but not efficiently enough to spend time on it.
Love the lift. Are you guys planning on bringing this to the City of Indianapolis championship?
Thank you and yes.
They will have two of them. Both A and B are going with this design. They collaborated on it. There is an additional modification (minor) that will be revealed there. They are hoping for a 30+ score in driving skills which is not bad for a pushbot.
I am eager to see what Josiah come up with for autonomous and programming skills. He starts working on those this week. He wanted to wait until it was finished to make sure the design was stable and can consistently do what he has in mind.
@dbenderpt Just wondering, how long does it take for you to get locked in and hang? We are having some issues with time as we don't want to spend too much time hanging.
At first it was taking about 8-10 second from the time they hit the corner to the time the lift was complete. After some practice and a few minor modifications (no video yet) they can get it there in about 6 seconds from the time the robot gets to the corner. They are hoping for under 5. The actual lifting time was 3 seconds before putting a power expander on after running the robot on one battery for over 3 minutes. We have not timed it yet with the new setup with the power expander, but the robot moves faster and I am guessing it will lift faster. They may even add some stored energy to increase the speed, but probably not before this weekend.
@dbenderpt Just wondering, how long does it take for you to get locked in and hang? We are having some issues with time as we don't want to spend too much time hanging.
At first it was taking about 8-10 second from the time they hit the corner to the time the lift was complete. After some practice and a few minor modifications (no video yet) they can get it there in about 6 seconds from the time the robot gets to the corner. They are hoping for under 5. The actual lifting time was 3 seconds before putting a power expander on after running the robot on one battery for over 3 minutes. We have not timed it yet with the new setup with the power expander, but the robot moves faster and I am guessing it will lift faster. They may even add some stored energy to increase the speed, but probably not before this weekend.
@gman513 Good job for not giving up on that lift. Hopefully it never lets you down!
Thank you. The kids worked hard on it. The have added to it. Now the arm is designed to quickly and easily knock stars off the fence without adversely affecting their hanging. They hope to hang in autonomous after scoring stars.
