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You make the call...
Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/13/2000 8:52 AM MST



I submitted this question to FIRST. Perhaps others have ideas on this.

Can a robot design mechanism intended to prevent their robot from being pushed off the ramp by extending wider than the distance between the 'uprights'?

For instance, a team may drive up the middle of the ramp and then put out 4 foot outriggers on each side of their ramp. These outriggers would not clamp on to anything, they would just hang off the edges of the ramp. If a competiting robot tried to push the outrigger robot off the ramp the outriggers would interact with the poles of the goal, but they are not actually touching the goal otherwise.

I suppose that rule M7 makes this robot illegal. Others on our team disagree.

Is the type of mechanism legal? Please clarify.

Joe J.


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