I just made this so we could have a place to discuss rise above robot ideas.

Have you considered a Tower Takeover style bot? A tray seems like it would be pretty efficient for this game.

Yeah… you’d think… Tray Bot concept for rise above

[image] Noah10851B: Yeah… you’d think… Is that supposed to imply that it’s a bad idea? There’s a good chance I’m wrong about this since I don’t do IQ, but the only concern other than building complexity I saw in that thread is that it would struggle to stack a riser on top of a pre-existing s…

A tower takeover bot would be pretty efficient, but the only problems would be the intakes (need to flip risers) and the tray flipout (a full stack of 3 risers is 26 inches long, so I’m guessing that teams will have 3 stage trays). I’m interested to see if people will use this design this season.

[image] RoboCatz: A tower takeover bot would be pretty efficient, but the only problems would be the intakes (need to flip risers) You could just mount them higher so they grab the risers from the middle instead of the bottom. [image] RoboCatz: and the tray flipout (a full stack of 3 ris…

Pushing cubes back 45 (or less degrees) isn’t all that hard, but doing the same thing with risers isn’t all that easy. [image] Anomalocaris: Is that supposed to imply that it’s a bad idea? Sorry for how I came off in saying that. My bad. My opinions about this design can be seen here: …

[image] Noah10851B: Pushing cubes back 45 (or less degrees) isn’t all that hard, but doing the same thing with risers isn’t all that easy. Why not? The intakes will align it with the tray so it will fall back every time, and if you grab it from near the middle you don’t have to worry about it…

[image] Anomalocaris: The intakes will align it with the tray so it will fall back every time The intake doesn’t align the riser with the tray. Because of the arbitrary shape of risers, it makes picking them up like this very difficult. [image] Anomalocaris: worry about it tipping forwar…

[image] FRC973: The intake doesn’t align the riser with the tray. Because of the arbitrary shape of risers, it makes picking them up like this very difficult. Risers are octagonal prisms which arguably makes them easier to pick up and align than cubes since octagons have more axes of symmetry…

You have some good ideas. I’ll have to try it some to see if it has potential or not. The riser’s height may be a challenge in picking it up, but maybe not. Just something to think about, could a tray bot be better than or even equally as good as these robots ?

Rise Above Robot Ideas

VEX IQ Robotics Competition Discussion VIQC Rise Above (2020-2021 Game)

Noah10851B November 6, 2020, 2:31am 273

Pushing cubes back 45 (or less degrees) isn’t all that hard, but doing the same thing with risers isn’t all that easy.

Sorry for how I came off in saying that. My bad. My opinions about this design can be seen here: