Start of Robot build

27th Oct 2012 - The second meeting was already in the Droid Lab, to start constructing the robot. We followed a couple of approaches before agreeing on a model.

We started by joining the two motors. We didn't follow any pre-existing plan for a robot. The goal was to distribute the weight on the wheels as much as possible.

There was an attempt to make a 3rd wheel as a free rotating model but we figured it could block the robot rotation under certain circumstances.

This first model used diagonal support bars. The problem with it is that we cannot guarantee that the connection points are aligned with the module connection point.

Second model, vertical bars.
Problem: Weight of the module away from the wheels, where we want the mass center to be, for an optimized rotation.

 

After some rework, we came up with this solution to hold the module.

This would make the weight of the module closer to the wheels.

Final result for the day.