URGET RULE QUESTION: Bumper Zone

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by aechmtwash11

What happens is our drive train will raise up when we accelerate. This is an side effect of having a freely articulating drive train to converse the bump.

Originally Posted by aechmtwash11

I think this is the same thing as we have. sometimes its even slopes from starboard to port side.

I'm glad someone finally tried this, because I've long wondered whether FIRST meant to disallow this kind of mechanism with the articulating bumper rule.

If part of your robot follows the bumper, and part of your robot follows the floor, with respect to which reference point(s) on the robot is the articulation supposed to be measured?

(Incidentally, if a connection allows motion, it's "articulated"—preventing the motion doesn't overcome that condition, at least if "articulated" is meant to be adjectival. The other interpretation of "articulated" is in the sense of the past tense of a verb. I don't know which interpretations FIRST had in mind.)