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In all, our robot did jump but not quite as high as we expected. From a simple energy balance, we estimated our mechanism to be able to jump
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$$h = 1/2mg * k * Δθ^2$$\frac{1}{2}mgk\delta\theta^2$$ |
where h is the jump height, m is the mass, k is the spring constant and Δθ is the spring's deflection angle. From a rough estimate, we found that our mechanism should jump ~30cm, however, we only realized ~10cm of jump height. Some future iterations to improve upon would be to:
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