Modular Bots??

[Suneet]

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
Not exactly. You can have 500 lbs of robot "stuff" ... but you can only put 130 lbs of it on the field at a time. Each module plus the drive base has to be 130 lbs or less. At the time of the inspection, you must weigh in each combination of modules that you will be putting on the field in order to pass the inspection.


- Katie

I think you're reading that rule incorrectly Katie.
"At the time of robot inspection, you must present all mechanisms that you will use on the robot during the entire competition event... Only mechanisms that were present during the inspection may be added, removed or reconfigured between matches." Means that you must pass the inspection with everything that will ever be on your robot installed. This means that all of them combined must be under 130lbs. If you change the systems, you have to be re-inspected.

I suppose in theory you could design three or four different systems, with the robot being in weight limits if only one of them was on, but every time you swapped out the system, you would need to be re-inspected. Have any teams done this, I wonder?