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Originally Posted by IndySam
Interesting question.
You are pushing another robot and see that it is starting to tip over and you don't back off. The robot tips over, your fault? You had the chance to back off but didn't but your contact was within the bumper zone.
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Obviously each situation will need to be evaluated on it's own, but if you are on flat ground and the tipping action takes long enough that you should have been able to see what was happening, then yes I believe a red card is in order.
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Is it the other teams fault for building a tipsy robot?
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The problem is that the tipping moment is created by bumper contact if you built a robot that
isn't tipsy. If the CoG of your robot is less than 13" tall, bumper-to-bumper contact will create a rotational moment. The lower your CoG is, the larger the moment (although you do have to be tipped up further before going over).