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Originally Posted by AustinDpOwers89
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P. BUMPERS must be mounted to the ROBOT within the BUMPER ZONE, and must remain there. The BUMPERS must not be articulated or designed to move outside of the BUMPER ZONE.
what i was just thinking tho is that the bumper zone is 1 to 7 inches off the floor... and the bumpers are required to be at least 6 inches long... does this mean we could vertically mount bumpers, say on the front of our robot?
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The bumpers have to be made from a 5" tall piece of plywood (and associated other parts...) So you basically have a zone of from 1-2" off the floor that the bumpers have to be mounted in.
The 6" inch requirement is for the minimum horizontal length. This would mean that the minimum size for a plywood backer is 5" tall and 6" long.
So the minimum coverage for a robot is:
Corners with plywood pieces 6" long completely supported by the robot.
For standard rectangular/square robots this would lead to 48" of coverage so a full sized (28 X 38) robot would need 40" more of bumper somewhere.
For a Pentagon shaped robot that would be 5 corners so 60" of corner coverage and they would need approximately 28" of extra bumper somewhere.
For a Hexagon shaped robot that would be 6 corners so 72" of corner coverage so an additional 16" of coverage
etc...
I believe this to be unambiguous in both the rules/updates and in the Q and A.
The only real issue might be if you design curved and not linear faces on your robot... and then you would have to make sure that in any configuration you would strike a wall with the bumper...and the bumper piece you strike the wall with is at least 6" in length.
I am somewhat mystified why everyone is still discussing this as it seems that the GDC made everything abundantly clear in the update and in the QA answers.