... Wheels 10 3
7 Controlling Your Motors 12 7
8 Remotely Controlling Your Robot 15 7
9 Robot Material and Construction Techniques 18 3
10 Weapons Systems for Your Robot 203
11 Autonomous Robots 239
12 Robot ... mangle any robot unlucky enough
to get caught in their grip.
There are four different weight classes for wheeled BattleBots, as shown in
Table 1- 1.
8 Build You...
... slower speed than the other wheel,
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FIGURE 3-3
Variations of
Ackerman steering.
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Building a combat robot is not a cheap venture, and you ... home.
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FIGURE 3 -1
Mechadon, the
largest walking
combat robot
ever built.
(courtesy
of Peter
Abrahamson)
True Story: Chris...
... as its wheels lose contact with the
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FIGURE 10 -6
Thwack bot
schematic of the
rotational motion.
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How to Know When You Need a Sponsor ... steel welding and have a professional do it right the first time.
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the damage done to...
... shown in equation 4, where the temperature, T
C
,isin
degrees Celsius:
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11 .1
11. 2
FIGURE 11 -4
Implementation of
the thermistor
using a voltage
divider circuit.
11 .3
11 .4
which ... system needs. Building a hammer mechanism
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FIGURE 10 -13
Deadblow, a
11 4-pound
pneumatic hammer
bot. (courtesy of
Grant...
... turn around, then move forward
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FIGURE 13 -12
Flowchart for
autonomous sumo
with object
detection.
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The Rover, Teleoperated with Feedback
The ... systems.
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FIGURE 12 -4
BrainStem
microcontroller
(courtesy of
Acroname, Inc.)
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Imagine tr...
... them to get a little more assurance that your robot will survive
all the way through a tough match.
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the wire so that it is easy to handle. ... Density
NiCad 10 0 amps 7.90 volts 1. 4Kg 3.1Ahr/Kg 2.9Ahr/Kg
NiMH 10 0 amps 10 .30 volts 1. 8Kg 3.6Ahr/Kg 3.3Ahr/Kg
SLA 12 0 amps 10 .22 volts 4.1Kg 2.9Ahr...
... transmission,
your robot should have all the speed and pushing force it should need in a contest.
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10 4
NE of the most important considerations in the design of your robot
is ... directly measured by putting a scale under each wheel.
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6 .11
FIGURE 6-3
Schematic showing
reaction forces on
a wheel.
6...
... for added traction.
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Research what supplies you already have on hand to do your building. What
tools do you own or have access to? ... test drive the robot. It seemed to be
running much better, and the momentary power losses seemed to go away.
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FIGURE 14 -16
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