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Originally Posted by redbarron
I still do not understand why this is not legal.......... If they were to put the bumpers at an angle across those pieces as long as the bumper pieces were at least six inches long, and the corner was not exposed, why isn't this legal?
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Because angled bumpers are not bumpers at all. If they are not on the bumper perimeter they are superfluous padded chassis sections. If you take a piece of string around the outside of the robot (definition of bumper perimeter) the bumpers must be attached to the chassis where the string is.
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BUMPER PERIMETER – the polygon defined by the outer-most set of exterior vertices on the ROBOT
(without the BUMPERS or Trailer Hitch attached) that are within the BUMPER ZONE. To determine
the BUMPER PERIMETER, wrap a piece of string around the ROBOT at the level of the BUMPER
ZONE - the string describes this polygon. The BUMPER PERIMETER may extend up to, but cannot
exceed, the maximum ROBOT volume constraints defined in Rule <R11>.
L. The BUMPERS must be fixed to the BUMPER PERIMETER.
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