3/17/22 Requirements and General Dimensions

Colin Szeto

Within the handbook for RobotX there are 100% perfectly constrained dimensions of the mission models.

Rather a range of dimensions are provided. Shown on the left and below are the excerpts from the handbook.

Units in mm

With general dimensions we can aim for the racquet ball launcher that shoots from 1 meter to 3 meters

above the waterline.

We see that the platform of the WAM-V is about 1.3m off the bottom of the pontoon (note this is not the

platform to the water line)

Above we see the proposed launch angles of the racquet ball to achieve these flat arcs. 

Front of the platform about 2099.543mm away from the front face of the wam-v platform

(2m)

Here is the file determining the launch angles 

We can see when the launch point (left base of the arc) is about 164mm off the top of the platform,

simulating the elevation of the release point of the racquet balls from the proposed lunachers

We can constrain all of the arcs to the same dimensions (3850mm point to point 4000mm radius) to

see what the launch profile will look like with constant exit velocity but varying launch angels

Racquetball link here

Need to weigh the actual balls that we have in the lab

So the length of the parabola is 3850mm (3.85 m) and the height is 493mm or (0.493 m)