Appendage Rules

[LinuxArchitect]

Originally Posted by nitneylion452

The intent of this question seems to be to ask if it is okay for the outer most extension of an appendage can cross the horizontal projection of the frame perimeter. Meaning that the appendage doesn't cross 2 physical edges of the frame perimeter, but it passes the plane of the frame perimeter. Can anyone from team 53 confirm/deny this?

A corner is an intersection of 2 edges and crossing over the corner would most likely constitute crossing 2 edges simultaneously, which is a penalty under [G21].

Yes, I was trying to ask if there was a width limit for an appendage. I now believe there is a limit based on answers to questions in [R-02]; you can't cross a second projected edge of your robot's frame perimeter (my words). If you have a rectangular frame, the width limit is thus the width of the side you cross. I don't know what they would rule for a round robot.

It would have been much cleaner if they had simply defined a horizontal envelope as they have in past years, e.g. 56x66 or 28x38 + 14 in any one direction at a time. IMHO, the "can't cross a second perimeter edge" language is confusing when they define the perimeter as the path made by a piece of string stretched around the frame. Obviously, I'm only crossing that string on one side. But whatever. Since we'll have a rectangular frame, I'm confident I know the limits of the appendages.