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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
... What really bugs me is that I can't find anything in the "Robot Rules" document that says that the spike, and pressure sensor, and other rules apply to a compressor off the robot, and no one yet has been able to give me an explanation as to why I should have assumed that they do. There's plenty of other devices that are used "off-robot" that don't seem to fall under the jurisdiction of the robot rules and I don't see why this is any different (I don't have a problem with this being a rule, I simply have a problem with it not being stated that way). Obviously based on Q&A answers it does, but prior to the Q&A it was not explicit.
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It seems clear to me that the robot rules apply to all of the pneumatic system components used on a robot. Using pneumatics with an off-board compressor as permitted by <R95> does not change the rules that apply to other pneumatics components and to the pneumatics system as a whole.
Another example of robot rules applying to interaction between a component used on the robot and an off-board component is the 6A rating for battery chargers, <R52>. The two rules (<R52> and <R97>) have the same purpose; i.e., automatic regulation of energy storage in robot components.
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