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Originally Posted by jgannon
I've been doing a little trig, and a little Paint.
The square is the bounding box, the rectangle is the robot. The diagonal of the box is 72√2, the length of the robot is 38, and the wasted part of the diagonal in the lower left is 14. As such, I calculate that an object of negligible width can protrude (72√2)-38-14 = 49.8 inches from the front of a standard size robot. Is this consistent with our current interpretation? Does this make sense in the spirit of the rule? |
I checked your math and you got it right. Then I considered the second case, in which the long side of the robot is perpendicular, rather than parallel, to the diagonal we're considering the arm to come out on. I did the math for that, and it seems that if your arm is coming out of the center of the wider side, its maximum length is actually
54.82", a gain of about 5". Maybe this helps someone.
-Guy