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Re: Catapulting minibot

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Originally Posted by Randy Picolet View Post
"MINIBOT – an autonomous vehicle designed and built to perform specific tasks when competing in the 2011 competition LogoMotion. The MINIBOT must obviously follow a design approach intended to play the 2011 FRC END GAME and must be compliant with all MINIBOT rules defined in Section 3.4.14. [sic s/b 4.3.14]"

An "autonomous vehicle", not a projectile/wind-up toy. Build a TETRIX robot, or don't bother... My take

Also I and others said in other threads, the autonomous requirement kicks in as soon as the minibot is deployed (positioned) on the tower/pole. And, its a climbing race. The Host cannot impart momentum without violating autonomy or the definition of climbing.
I completely disagree. Autonomous simply means acting independently. It never says intelligently. Who's to say we even need to use the brick. I saw a team, while judging at the state FLL competition this year, who had their robot hit a lever for a large box. The robot never left the base for this program. Within this box was a spring loaded mechanical arm that placed the bone bridge (I think that's what it was called) exactly in the right location every time. Why build a complicated minibot with an FTC kit instead of just a box that fires itself off.
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