Re: Robo Speed

[email removed] Robert S. Dean wrote:
> Anyway, if you sent these robots out on the roads or other trafficways by
> themselves, they could then use their speed effectively.

  If robots are present to some degree on a world, there is bound to be a
speedlimit for pedestrian traffic, probably around 10-20kph as an absolute
maximum.

  Maximum *possible* speed indoors would probably be determined with dexterity
in mind for the non-thrust driven robots.

> I know using the
> P/W calculations on wheeled/tracked/legged robots will tend to make them
> fast because they need a lot (comparatively) of power to run peripherals,

  The big trouble is that even now, I had divided the power output by 28.
Otherwise, even the legged robots would have had speeds reduced only by
streamlining.

> but there is really no reason to design an indoor grav robot with more than
> a nominal amount of excess thrust (.1G or so?).  So some of this could be
> covered in the design section without having to do a separate table for them.

  There is two things though, that requires high thrust in grav-robots. The
first is if they are supposed to work on different worlds. I don't think that a
robot with 0.1 excess gees at one standard gravity could even lift it's own
weight on a UWP size A world. The second is that for some robots (like the XT-3)
a large thrust is needed to enable it to carry heavy parts and machinery.
Actually I feel that the thrust of the XT-3 is inadequate, since the thrust
cannot support as much weight as the robot can possibly lift (about 600kg).

> Rob Dean

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