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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
This is an interesting design. I don't want to be a rules miser or anything, but don't you technically have a robot that is turreted and the bumpers move with respect to the drive base. We specifically ruled out doing something like this because the frame that the motors and gearboxes are connected to is technically your fixed drive base. The top structure is a turret that moving. Don't get mne wrong, I love the design but how is this not considered a turret? Just becasue you put the bumpers on it? I hope that there is not an overzealous inspector that rules against this design. I wouldn't, but I know some that would ....
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It shouldn't matter: the rules say where the bumpers should be with respect to the entire robot (i.e. in the bumper zone, on the perimeter). What happens inside the robot, or where its drivetrain is located, doesn't affect anything.
It's popular to define the robot frame as "the thing that holds the wheels", but the rules make no such definition. (A similar situation came into play last year, with 1519's dual-configuration robot/two robots. It was ruled that because the main structure of the robot was being interchanged, that it was actually two robots...the trouble was, there was nothing in the rules to define the main structure.)