Climb
The main priority of the climb design was to climb high enough for the trap. To accomplish this we found that we could use wheels against the stage wall that would roll up as we pulled the hook down. The first idea to climb the chain was to have a telescoping mechanism but we noticed that it wouldn’t achieve enough height. The next idea was to do an elevator mechanism that would allow us to get the hook lower when we climb. For our wheel assembly we wanted to have our arms collapsed and then be able to release them onto the wall.
All of our mechanisms for climbing are able to work very well together and we were able to condense it down to 1 motor controlling our whole climb. Overall we have accomplished a lot of our priorities with our climb, but there are still many improvements to make our climb more efficient. Our climb design has come together well and has a unique appearance, as well as a unique sequence to be able to lift our robot. n place.
The first overall idea of the climb was to have arms pivot out on one side, and then the hook and elevator mechanism would be on the other side. We noticed that the idea would be a lot of moving parts and mechanisms and we would probably need to use lots of motors, so we considered using pneumatics, but we wanted to avoid that, because we wouldn’t have much space for it. Since we wanted to avoid pneumatics; there was the idea of using gas shocks to do the same thing a piston would do and push the arms out. All we had to figure out was how to release and lock the arms in place.