Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

*Citation required*

Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

Did they use magnets? it just sucked right back onto the pole.

Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

Deployment ends when the Minibot crosses the deployment line... but the rule does not say that hostbots can't contact the minibot after deployment ends. If that's what the rule says, then probably 3/4 of the matches need to be re-scored, as their towers should have been disabled when the minibot came down and contacted a deployment mechanism before the match ended.

Deployment ended, the minibot flipped over off the pole (BTW, 9.5/10 on the backflip--it didn't do the full 360 in the air), landed on the robot in a deployable position, and went right back up the pole. Contact re-initiated after the minibot recrossed the line. No violations here.

Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

I just looked at the rules. I think an early version had a restriction about HB/MB touching after deployment but perhaps that was dropped. But when did deployment start/end? If you say there were two deployments when did the 2nd one start? The mb didn't break the cylinder boundary a second time so a second deployment didn't start so there can only be one deployment. I suppose I could cite rule G46 which says MBs may only climb the pole and hence cannot perform acrobatics involving falling from the pole in the midst of the climb.

I do agree that you'd be hard pressed to find a ref denying you the points regardless of how the current rules are interpreted. (including me!)

John Vriezen
Team 2530 "Inconceivable"
Mentor, Drive coach, Inspector

Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

Just a few clarifications about our amazing (and lucky) minibot.

We don't use magnets, we have two spring loaded wheels, which are driven independently. The deployment mechanism is a curved pipe the same diameter as the vertical pipe. A cutout at the end of the deployment pipe mates with the pole so there is a smooth transition during launch.

We don't know what caused the minibot to fly off the pole. We have never seen it come off the pole after it passed the deployment line. In Philly we had 12 sucessfully launches and one trick performance. Oh well, it was interesting.

Re: ROBBE XTREME's Flying Minibot
 

Sure. They did it three times in the video! :D

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Wow! Deploying twice in one match. Super climb rate too. I will have to show my boys (normally an FLL team) when we get home this evening. They will be jealous.

The team we worked with wasn't able to deploy our Minibot successfully even once during competition though they could do it in practice. The worst was when they left the claw down (twice) and the Minibot ran up into it and shut off. You guys must have gotten our allocation of luck!