[EricH]

One of mine was in 2009. I was inspecting a team with a beautiful attachment system--they were using latches to hold their bumpers on--and an otherwise clean machine. Then I applied the MultiPurpose Bumper Measurement Jig (a template that would check bumper height and whether or not the trailer tongue would hit it, and to some extent proper bumper construction). Too low (or might have been too high). By less than an inch.

Somehow I don't think I was the most popular person in that pit at the time... but they did figure up something to pass inspection.



I've been holding off on posting it, but I've got a couple of images hopping around my computer of a "good" bumper configuration, and more to the point what the Frame Perimeter is in relation to the robot's frame (and where it would need bumpers!) I'll probably put that up in the next day or two, with the caveat that it is NOT official and NOT justification for being silly about trusting everything you see on the internet.