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Originally Posted by Jim Meyer
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I think this whole "touching the loading zone" thing is ridiculous to begin with. It seems this whole rediculous rule was designed around preventing people from using a weight on a string to gain a permanant "don't touch me" rule. They're currently not enforcing the rule unless you are trying to retrieve a tetra anyway. Why couldn't they just extend this loading zone up 3" above the ground and say you have to have a structural (rigidly attached) part of your robot in that zone?
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We will have plenty of time to think about future rules for future years. But... ...I can't resist one more suggested way to implement what they wanted without some of the wiskier side affects.
If I were king (and I clearly am not) I would have had an IR transmitter (aka a beam of light) at the tip of the loading zone triangle and a receiver just above the fence line on the side of the field. When you break the beam a light goes on in the associated zone and you are IN. From that time, you get 6 seconds on the autozone, 10 seconds at the human zone load. After that, the light goes off and you're OUT. When the light is on you're safe. When it off, you're fair game. I think we'd still have to have something to make sure it is the robot base that is blocking the light and no an arm, but I think a manual override button and a ref watching could handle those cases. The visual light could make it simpler to judge and simpler for teams to know when a team is not to be touched.
Just another idea for next season...
Joe J.