Our middle school team’s robot keeps running into discs. These get into the bottom of the robot and they get stuck in the match.
Appreciate if teams can share your experience in solving this problem
Our team also had this problem. You could try making an intake, or adding a sort of protective (for lack of better word) “shield” made of some c-channels or metal pieces that don’t touch the ground but are low enough to keep discs out.
You don’t specify how you get stuck and type of drive train you have. As mentioned previously, create a barrier to prevent the discs from entering in the first place. The second order problem is preventing objects from catch under the robot - like edges of the c-channels, depends on your design. Third consideration, having the power to your wheels directed to wheels actually contacting surfaces and having clearance to go over things, like the low barrier (which is another place MS teams get caught on - a veritable Mount Everest!)
This is what design is about, understand the problem you are trying to solve. People here are glad to help, but can’t with no information about your actual robots.
Hope this gets you in the right direction - VRC is a great learning platform for MS students.
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Yes so, my team doesn’t necessarily have this happening when just driving on disc but in some matches if our catapult miss fires a disc might get under the catapult. And our driver just does this beyblade spin and the disc comes out real fast. That’s our experience, we don’t have that problem anymore since we fixed the catapult.
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We just add C channel between the wheels and the back of the robot so it is basically impossible to get stuck
Just came from a pretty large middle & high school competition yesterday. Discs stuck under bots was a BIG problem. Several had skirts/shields/etc around the bot’s chassis to prevent discs from getting under there.
Problem 1) they still got under and because of the shield were impossible to get out
Problem 2) the skirt/shield, being low to the ground, would hold the wheels in the air if the bot got pushed onto discs OR the corner goal plastic pieces.
Best solution I saw… mount the bearing/shafts in the LOWEST hole on a 1x3 ‘c’ channel. This lifts the chassis UP and allows you to drive over discs easily. I didn’t see any problems with bots like this getting stuck on ANYTHING.
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