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Originally Posted by EricH
<R02-C> is a prohibition of anything intended to jam or interfere with opponents' sensors.
On second read, you sound like you were intending to try to ram them away from the line. That might work, except that I'd be more than willing to bet that they have a gyro and/or accelerometer to block that.
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No, no, not ram them. We've got mecanum drive, and couldn't hope to budge them in a pushing contest. The idea would be to jam ourselves under the tower so that they hit us and then deflect off of our robot, all nice and bumper-to-bumper-like, but keep moving forward as if they were going under the tower...
And that has nothing to do with interfering with sensors!
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Originally Posted by EricH
Regarding parking across their tunnel entrance with a wide-oriented robot: perfectly legal, easily possible if they're coming from the middle, and pretty easy to set up as an autonomous: orient parallel to the bump, and drive forward x distance. One blocked robot, coming right up. You can't get the 38" dimension through the tunnel without bumpers, let alone with.
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Yes, yes, but that only works for the autonomous period. (I was thinking 'strafe sideways, then back into the tunnel as much as possible). The goal would be to get yourself wedged in there well enough that they couldn't de-wedge you, and being parked across the tunnel long-ways just means they'll come in from the side and shove you out of the way.
(I have it on good authority that their drive train can shove most other robots out of the way almost trivially).