Quote:
Originally posted by Curtis Williams
I am very interested in this. I can picture a few scenarios.
Imagine a robot clamps/hugs onto you. If you had a piston that shot out to push the grip away and the opposing robot's arm got snapped in half, who would be responsible? Did they take that risk when grabbing you or have you malitiously attacked their robot?
|
Ref's call.
Quote:
Our robot's underbelly has weak sheet metal with holes in it. If an opposing robot tries to use a forklift on us and breaks something, can they claim that we werent well designed? Or have they broken our robot and need to be penalized? Disqualified for malitious intent?
|
Not malicious intent. All the ref has to do is look at the underside and see that your robot wasn't made robustly. Remember the warning they gave us about having robust robots...
Quote:
What are you allowed to grab? Touch? Can I poke a rod between spokes in a wheel to prevent it from moving? Theres a decent chance that this could harm a poorly-built robot. Would this violate entanglement maybe?
|
Entanglement. Ref's call on malicious intent. Ref may disable due to safety reasons (have someone throw a stick between the spokes of your bike when you are riding...think about it...not cool). Ref's may see this as not in the spirit of the FIRST competition.
Quote:
It would also be interesting to see spikes INSIDE a robot. If a robot rams you hard enough to penetrate your outer shell, could you have spikes inside to *discourage* overly aggressive behavior?
|
The spikes would be made with malicious intent, from a ref's point of view (the ONLY point of view that counts, BTW). The whole point (no pun intended) behind the spikes would be to damage a robot.
Quote:
Lets say you had things like grippers and arms that reacted to sensors on your robot. A hard blow could cause these parts to trigger. If they are triggered (by a sensor not by operator), would you be responsible for any resulting damage?
|
Good question. Ref's call. Remember, the ref won't know if the blow triggered the sensors or not...
Quote:
Lets say someone picked our robot up. If we extended part of our robot inside their frame (assuming they had no side panels), and they moved us up or set us down and damaged their robot, would we be responsible?
|
Sticking the parts inside their frame would have only one use--to maliciously damage the opposing robot. Its retaliation. "You want to pick us up? We'll rip damage your insides!".