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Re: Need to compare
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Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:47:49 GMT
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Mike Thorn <BUACHAILLE@NEO.ihatespamRR.COM>
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At 02:35 PM 9/28/02, you wrote:
We have already seen the shrimp and we think to build something like that
(maybe also with tri-star wheels)... But if somebody find a better solution,
because we don't know the comportement of the shrimp with a little hole on
the ground. A whole just large enouh to "keep" a wheel...

I like the tri-wheel design. If you make if big enough it shouldn't have
any trouble. Something like this (or bigger):
http://mindstorms.lego.com/inventions/invention.asp?ID={18963B1A-0087-241F-2DE2-5BD563820A4A}&slotN=2

For the step, it begins at 1cm and it will be increased until no véhicule is
able to climb this step...

The advantage of an ODEX design. Very wide extremes.

I know this is harebrained, but how about some sort of winch system? It
shoots out a grappling hook and pulls itself forward.

~Mike
http://www11.brinkster.com/buachaille/newsletter/


Vincent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net>
To: "Vincent Raman" <Vincent.Raman@ulb.ac.be>
Cc: "Mailing list robotique" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Need to compare




Vincent Raman wrote:
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

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 measuring - and stretch it's
legs outwards after the start.

Climbing a standard step (which is about 20cm) with a 30cm tall robot
seems pretty tricky to me.

Something like the "Shrimp" might do it...but the requirement to move
along a surface that's higher on one side than the other would be hard
for a Shrimp to manage.

I think the idea of a long legged robot would be the answer...especially
if the rules allow it to start off folded up into the 30cm height limit
and then stretch out to (say) twice that size to give it a chance to
climb a 20cm step.

And we can have 620 Euro's...

So that's about US$620...that's quite a generous limit!

That'll buy quite a bit of Lego (at US prices) - so you could certainly
consider a dual-RCX design with a butt-load of Pneumatics (unless Lego
is vastly expensive in your part of the planet).

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(...) A straight tri-wheel like that can't climb anything higher than half it's height though. If you are really after something that'll climb TALL steps, then it has to have something high up at the front to grab the top of the step with. Even a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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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 (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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