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Originally Posted by Vanquish
Can you pass through the 80 inch square while your transitioning from your starting stage to your next stage? Like if your claw passes through while you are moving it into your competitive mode
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Originally Posted by vhcook
Per R16, you can't exceed 80" in playing configuration, and playing configuration is defined as any configuration you are in while playing, which would appear to include transient configurations.
This is also being discussed over here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t=61401&page=7 |
And the best answer from that thread is this one:
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Originally Posted by ay2b
The rule can be rephrased as this: if you were to project all points of the robot onto the ground (i.e. a horizontal plane), would there exist any two points which are more than 80 inches apart? If the answer is yes, then the robot is too big.
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In other words, look at the "footprint", a term that seems to get lots of mileage these days.
Vanquish references "transistioning" from starting to playing configuration. That is usually associated with what is commonly termed the "flop-bot", one that starts upright and then flops over to drive. Since R16 refers to the playing configuration, it can logically be argued that R16 doesn't apply until you get into the playing configuration.
However, the rest of Vanquish's post doesn't seem to be talking about a flop-bot. If to unfold your arm from its starting configuration you exceed 80" in a horizontal direction, you have come afoul of R16.
Back to the drawing board.