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Unread 28-01-2012, 03:01
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Re: 2nd Most Awaited Q and A Answer?

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
For the love of Andy Baker can we please stop lawyering this into oblivion and use some common sense? The GDC doesn't want to artificially limit designs through inane rule interpretation.

You may have 1 mechanical appendage at a time that may extend up to a 14" offset of your frame perimeter. If the robot is a circle, any appendage must remain within a circle of a 14" larger radius with the same center as the frame perimeter. If your robot is a rectangle then any appendage must remain within a rectangle of 28" greater width and 28" greater length with the same center as the frame perimeter.

The appendage may have forks or splits in it as long as it is mechanically connected in such a way as they must function unison. Your arm+hand+fingers is considered one appendage. Your two arms acting in unison through brain commands (i.e. robot code) are still two separate appendages.
Even this "common sense" explanation still lacks clarity as to whether or not an appendage can deploy diagonally off a corner, and, if so, how far?
There may be a 90 degree angle forbidden zone at the vertex of each 90 degree frame corner?
Just going by the "rectangle of 28" greater width and 28" greater length" analysis, could allow a 40+% longer (14" X 1.414) appendage length at corners if the diagonal deploy is legal, but it would still be crossing both of the bot's adjacent frame edge lines, which may not be allowed.

-RRLedford

Last edited by RRLedford : 28-01-2012 at 03:05.