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Originally posted by Suneet
I think you're reading that rule incorrectly Katie.
"At the time of robot inspection, you must present all mechanisms that you will use on the robot during the entire competition event... Only mechanisms that were present during the inspection may be added, removed or reconfigured between matches." Means that you must pass the inspection with everything that will ever be on your robot installed. This means that all of them combined must be under 130lbs. If you change the systems, you have to be re-inspected.
I suppose in theory you could design three or four different systems, with the robot being in weight limits if only one of them was on, but every time you swapped out the system, you would need to be re-inspected. Have any teams done this, I wonder?
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You're reading it the way you want to hear it, and not the way it says.
It doesn't say anything at all about
all mechanisms being
on the robot at time of inspection. They just have to be
present. They mostly want this so they can inspect the modules for other things such as electrical and pneumatics stuff. I'm sure they'll probabaly make you put each module on so they can check weight and dimensions.
Modular robot is a good thing. Then you can change the purpose of your robot to fit the opposing alliance and your alliance.
I'm sure it would win you a few technical awards in doing so...
The
real question is: Do
all the modules have to cost less than $3500 combined or just the different combinations on the robot? I'd imagine they would have to be the entire combined cost because of the ability to make your robot do everything. It would be no different than having all the modules on at once.