Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Prestige - Design ideas

Use this posting to discuss as a company design features that you would want to include on your robot. Include links to specific ideas online that can be used as inspiration.

Every person in your group must make a posting of ideas and a seprate posting commenting on other members ideas.

6 comments:

  1. I think that a good concept would be a bulldozer bucket, like so. http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Graphics/000-0823183319-bulldozer.jpg
    bulldozer.http://seeker401.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/bulldozer.jpg
    -will

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  2. i dont think a bull dozer buckett would work well. We need a machine that can drive well over and through rocks and also pick up materials easily. A bulldozer would not work for these circumstances.

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  3. A real good concept would be a robot with a claw and big wheels so thaat it will be able to drive over rocks and pick up samples on the moon.
    Below are 2 good links to follow my idea :
    1)http://www.robai.com/?gclid=CKCP_oCvrKACFQ0eDQodY2_FZw
    2) http://www.sunray-inc.com/index.php?page=drive-wheels

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  4. By the way El Greco is Gus Moshos

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  5. In response to gus's blog, I think that big wheels would not be ideal, because we can only use so many motors, and since the motors are one-sided, we can not power all the wheels with 2 motors.

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  6. I think that an important design feature to use would be a wide wheelbase so as to be able to maintain balance on bumpy surfaces. We should also use tank treads so as to have a zero degree turning radius. A backhoe would also be useful for picking up rocks without pushing them away.
    Tank Treads: www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm

    backhoe:www.anderton-kitchen.com/backhoeloaders.asp

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