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Originally Posted by MrForbes
When I read the rules, it appeared that if your robot contacts the touchpad, but then goes back down the rope enough that the touchpad is no longer activated, then you can't get the climbing bonus.
It might be that you want to spend a little time on the control system for your climbing mechanism?
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This isn't a universally true statement. You just need to satisfy the two criteria:
- Touch the pad for at least 1 continuous second
- Touch the pad during the 0.0 second mark on the clock.
I actually can't find anything in the rules that suggests that these two operations have to be done in the same instance of touching the button; I could have missed that though. Point being, if you touch the button at zero seconds, and you've already touched it for 1 second or more beforehand, you don't need to stay up there.
Any number of really simple control system things can ensure you don't immediately fall back down once you touch the button - it could be as simple as a feed-forward gain.