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Re: Need to compare
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:27:44 GMT
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Vincent Raman <VINCENT.RAMAN@ULB.ACstopspammers.BE>
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Thank you for your idea... but I forgot to say you that I have restriction
for the dimensions...

Dimensions : height : 30cm
                    Lenght : 60cm
                    width : 30cm

And we can have 620 Euro's...

Bye

Vincent

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Thorn" <buachaille@neo.rr.com>
To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Need to compare


> Vincent,
> 
> At 10:32 AM 9/28/02, Vincent wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > For my university, we must construct a bot with LEGO Mindstorms. This bot
> > has to be able to climb a step, to ride above a (little) whole and to • have
> > left and right wheels at different height. In fact, he might be able to • go
> > everywhere...
> > 
> > We have choices to do that. We can use wheels, legs or caterpillars
> > tracks...
> > 
> > I would need your experience to say me wich system is the best.... We • think
> > that wheels are the best, by intuition, but why??? Have you some • argument???
> > Is there a risk for the wheel to stay in the whole???
> > 
> > Have tou some ideas, maybe???
> > 
> > Thank you very much!
> > 
> > Vincent
> 
> Without knowing the limitations of your resources, I would vote for a
> legged vehicle. You can make if large enough that even if a leg did go in
> the hole it wouldn't fall in or get stuck, you could make it with as many
> legs as you like (good for varied terrain), it's not that hard to build • and
> it looks cool. :-)
> 
> If you have a huge amount of resources, I would suggest the ultimate
> off-road walker: an ODEX. I have a link:
> http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/odex_1.htm. If you can't do something
> that big, I would try something on the order of a very large hexapod.
> 
> Just my two cents. ;-)
> 
> ~Mike
> http://www11.brinkster.com/buachaille/newsletter/
> 
> 



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(...) Is that the *initial* dimensions - or the *maximum* dimensions? If it's just one of those things like "the robot must start off in a box no bigger than 30x60x30" - then it can just fold itself up into that space when they are doing the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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Vincent, (...) Without knowing the limitations of your resources, I would vote for a legged vehicle. You can make if large enough that even if a leg did go in the hole it wouldn't fall in or get stuck, you could make it with as many legs as you like (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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