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While starting on a project like this, you have got to read a lot firstly. Then write down all of the critical points which will directly effect the design. I decided to divide the robot into 7 parts and many sub-parts to handle the problems one by one. The list is not in a work order though just showing me the problems that we are going to solve.




Flat (pancake) motors are going to be useful in the robots, because they take less place than a regular dc motor. Solenoid and the dc motors are the heaviest parts of a robot. For stabilization the center of gravity has got to be close to the ground. If we choose a regular dc motor that will cause not enough space for the solenoid. So we need to mount either solenoid or the dc motors higher than the other. This will make the center of gravity go higher. How important is center of gravity ? will be a question here. Since the robot is rapidly accelerating and decelerating, the robot will roll over. Some of the teams encountered this problem, although they didn ' t roll over, I have seen some of the teams almost rolled over in their qualification videos.



Considering all of the 28 teams; we figure out that most (67.86 %) of the teams are using Maxon motors.


30 Watt motors are used by 42.85% of the teams. Which is the greatest ratio of all.

Since we have no previous experience about the RoboCup soccer checking the tables and drawing graphs will help us to choose the right brand and power for our soccer team.

Maxon EC-45Flat30 W motors looks like the most suitable for our robots. But how will they work in reality, besides their performance on the data sheet.

After some estimations I'll post the expected output of the Maxon EC-45 Flat 30W motors.