Cozmo's Lift
Cozmo's lift remains perpendicular to the ground no matter how high it's raised.
What mechanism accomplishes this? Model it in SolidWorks and produce a
motion study.
Note: to demonstrate that the lift doesn't rotate:
- Click on plots/reports, select
Displacement/Velocity/Acceleration, then select Angular
Displacement. Click on the inner face of one of the holes in the
lift. Then click on the inner face of one of the holes in the opposite (fixed) link. You
should see a plot with a flat line.
- Create a second report of the same type, but this time click on the inner face of one of the holes
in one of the long links, and an inner face of a hole in the fixed link. You should see a
diagonal line.
Dave Touretzky
Last modified: Wed Feb 1 06:00:59 EST 2017