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Re: Newbie needs Help
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:11:43 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, steve <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> The trick here is to mount the tow rope on the FRONT of the robot
> fairly high up.
> ...
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> So a L-O-N-G nose - with the rope attached high at the front
> has some interesting possibilities.
I'm with you until we get here. Attaching at the front of a long nose feels
like a bad idea. Any side force on the tow rope will tend to pull the robot off
course, and once slightly off course the force only gets worse. In any case, a
front-end tow rope attachment will want to be routed *under* the chassis and
drive axle, so that the "back flip" case doesn't turn into a spectactular
disaster.
At this point I'm going to quit speculating... I need to draw it out and write
up the equations to see it better. Or better yet, go build something.
-dave
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| (...) That makes sense. (...) Yeah - I agree. So we have to sum some force vectors here. If our robot is pulling to the left, we have a horizontal 'drive' force to the left and a force in the tow rope going off to the right - plus a force due to (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jun-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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