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Originally Posted by gblake
Right ... And I think that converting any deployment momentum into climbing assitance is 100% illegal/forbidden in Logomotion.
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Someone correct me if I"m wrong but I'm pretty sure teams such as 254, 973, 368 and 233 had minibots going up ramps before they even touched the pole. Here's a video of what the OP is asking about
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmT9nTWqDOU
Also, I clearly remember these minibots with these ramp deployment devices being used at the Championship event so I'm almost 100% sure they're legal. The rule you are looking at is <G19> and it states:
MINIBOTS must remain completely autonomous and move up the POST solely through electric energy provided after the start of DEPLOYMENT by the permitted, unaltered battery and converted to mechanical energy by the permitted unaltered motors (and associated, appropriate circuitry). <G19> means that HOSTBOTS are not allowed to launch the MINIBOT up the pole at the TARGET, or otherwise contribute to the vertical movement of the MINIBOT. Energy for vertical movement may not be stored in the MINIBOT before DEPLOYMENT (except that which is contained within the battery and excluding incidental kinetic energy stored in the motors or wheels, but NOT, for example, in a flywheel).
While hostbots may not "launch" minibots up the pole, I believe that these teams basically start the minibot's motors while it is on the ramp so it will use the ramp as a track to gain speed before it gets to the pole (under its own power); therefore, there is no violation of <G19>