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Re: Underestimating the Trailer

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Originally Posted by Petey View Post
I bet it'd be hard, but I'm pretty sure it's possible. You don't need a square chassis, all you need is a way to construct your back end in such a way that the sides of the hexagon abut the back end of your bot while the trailer tongue is pulled pretty far in while also observing the other rules about attaching easily and not hitting the walls before bumpers.
We were looking into that too, but our team came to the general consensus that FIRST was trying to articulate that the trailer hook-up was to be attached to the "outer-edge" created by the bumper polygon. For those curious about the bumper polygon it is shape created by the outermost points/corners of the robot. (Note, by definition polygons cannot have indentations, or in other words internal angles greater than 180 degrees.) But I would love for someone to prove us wrong.
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