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Re: Internal robot parts contacting floor (non-wheel)

Reminds me of a team in 2014. They had no ground clearance to speak of, and field staff knew every time they went across the tape lines. (There's a reason that the FTAs started cutting the tape into sections...) Took them most of practice day to find and solve the problem for good. I want to say it was a screw or something on the robots' belly.



GeeTwo, I can't speak for Al, but what I think he's saying is that if the dustpan (or other device) moves out too far freely, there's a non-zero risk of being called for a bumper zone violation. And the reason is because it has the potential to end up lifting the bumpers out of the zone, should the robot be suddenly transposed to a flat floor. Bumper zone is 0-7" from the floor, measured with the robot sitting on a flat floor. If something is dropping in such a way that the bumpers could be seen to be at 9" from the floor in that position, then it's going to be an interesting discussion with the LRI and quite possibly the Head Ref. Best to make sure that such devices can't go "too far", whatever that is for your robot, in order to prevent that.
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