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Rope Climbing
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Fri, 31 Jan 2003 01:35:24 GMT
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As promised, here are the details about the next mini-challenge: rope climbing.
Build a robot that starts 12" away from a dangling rope, moves towards it,
and climbs it so that the robot raises itself at least 12" above the ground.
The rope will be tied to a 2x4, which will be held up by a pair of tables.
The end of the rope nearest the ground will be hanging loosely. You should
bring your own rope to tie onto the 2x4, but if you like, here are the
details about the rope I'll bring: It's a braided nylon rope which is 24mm
wide to start with, and easily compresses to 12mm. With a lot of force you
can get it down to 10mm wide. (24mm=0.94"; 12mm=0.47"; 10mm=0.39")
Your own rope should be at least four feet long, to provide enough length to
tie it down, as well as to climb it.
For extra credit:
- Build a robot that uses an anthropomorphic climbing mechanism (that is,
acts like a human would in climbing a rope)
- Build your robot to climb all the way to the top
- Build your robot to sense that it's at the top (there will be a knot
there, after all) and climbs back down again
If you have trouble building a robot that finds the rope itself, build one
that starts hanging onto the rope.
And don't forget, we'll have the second run at our Grand Challenge, Figure-8
racing. If you haven't requested a robot ID yet, don't forget to do so. See
http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=142 for details on this challenge.
Finally, I will bring the black 'tokens' to the meeting if anyone wanted to
finish or improve their robots from the last mini-challenge. This is just
for people who want to.
--
David Schilling
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 | | March 29th SMART meeting
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| In two weeks we'll be having the next SMART meeting. The time and location will be as usual: room 2 at the Redmond Regional Library, starting at 2pm. The mini challenge is to climb a rope. See the previous message (below) for details. I highly (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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