Minibot & Robot Starting Config

[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by IndySam

ROBOT – the composite electromechanical assembly designed and built by a FRC team to perform specific tasks when competing in the 2011 competition LogoMotion. The ROBOT must include all the basic systems required to be an active participant in the game – power, communications, control, mobility, and actuation. The ROBOT implementation must obviously follow a design approach intended to play the 2011 FRC game (e.g. a box of unassembled parts placed on the FIELD, or a ROBOT designed to play a different game, would not satisfy this definition). The ROBOT includes both the HOSTBOT and the MINIBOT (ROBOT = HOSTBOT + MINIBOT).

A minibot is part of the robot by definition and therefore subject to the starting configuration rules.

I agree but Kent's point is well taken. <R11> explicitly states that the minibot is not included in the starting configuration volume.

As I pointed out, <R14> does require the entire robot to be within the frame perimeter. The anguish I have is that the bumpers are also part of the robot and therefore can not be outside the bumper perimeter.

Yuck... These rules are such a mess...

At issue here is that <R11>, <R14>, et cetera, have been muddled by the minibot-hostbot general mish-mash making this year's rules among the worst I have ever read...

JMHO,

Mike