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Originally Posted by Russ Beavis
Please don't build a robot as shown in that CAD model. I would really hate for inspectors to give you the bad news that you'd need to completely rework it for compliance. Even if the Trailer Hitch was located on the Bumper Perimeter, if the trailer were to swing "out" of the robot, the trailer tongue would definitely hit one of the robot's bumpers before making bumper-to-bumper contact. This is clearly in violation of the rules in Rev B of Section 8.
Russ
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And to add to this, even though the red extension on the robot wouldn't hit the wall, it is illegal for extending past the plane of the bumper zone, as per update 1:
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2) The Game Design Committee would like to elaborate on the restriction about robot
size during match play. Specifically, it’s important to read and understand the
statement in Rule <R08>, referring to the bumpers:
“…If implemented as intended, a ROBOT that is driven into a
vertical wall in any normal PLAYING CONFIGURATION will
always have the BUMPER be the first thing to contact the wall.”
This rule restricts any arms, mechanisms, hoods, etc from extending beyond the
BUMPER PERIMETER. Among other things, some associated intentions of this rule
are to prevent teams from having manipulators which extend outside the BUMPER
PERIMETER, and to prevent teams from being able to de-score game pieces or
block/disrupt trailers. While the current belief is that rule changes or additions are not
needed to prevent such robot behavior, if teams are pursue this type of strategy by
employing a loophole, or by other means, an amendment to the rules will be made.
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(The bolded and underlined sentence should make this reasonably clear.) Fortunately, clarification of this came in update #1, so you've still got 40 days left to tweak your design. (: