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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
There's a little problem with that reasoning: although they don't go right ahead and say it, by giving the string example in the definition, it's clear that the definition of frame perimeter refers to the minimal convex polygon within the bumper zone. For many designs, that's different from the minimal bounding quadrilateral (which you're describing). (There are even a couple of possible—but unlikely—cases where this isn't the minimum quadrilateral either.)
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I was careful (but not particularly clear) to include "right at the corners" in my wording.
What I intended to portray was each corner of the robot having a bolt coming out of each face directly adjacent to the corner, so 2 bolts per corner, 8 total. This should result in the rough approximation you suggested.