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Originally Posted by sgoldman
Rules G18 and R3 state: "ROBOTS may not extend greater than 15 in. beyond the FRAME PERIMETER. Violation: FOUL"
My team was curious if this applied to the potential extension of parts, or just what extends in a match. For example, if we were to have an arm that manipulates obstacles during a match and telescopes up at the end to scale the castle (not our exact thoughts, just theoretical), it could extend 15 inches beyond the perimeter during the match, but won't. Would this pass inspection?
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Read rule R3 and note the blue box underneath it. Your inspector should ask how you're going to prevent it from extending more than 15" horizontally. If you have, for example, a SW lock that uses game time from FMS to lock out the function that extends it vertically, you'd probably be good.
I'm having trouble visualizing how something like this would work, so I can't really say for sure. I suspect that even without some kind of SW lock you'd probably pass, but if so the LRI would tell the Head Ref about it, saying "it passed inspection but it might violate G18 if they're not careful."