Remote Kill Switch

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Originally Posted by Fields

I agree that driving should not happening in the pit. In the other thread someone had talked about testing their actuator and grabbing a tote. In order to get accurate feedback, both items had to be on the same level which worked out to be the floor.

Okay but let's consider some issues specific to this year:

A robot outside of transport configuration is probably larger.
The totes are relatively large.

I watched several people put their robot on the floor and test actuators and I am fine with that.

However a large robot, not really designed with crumple zones or padding moving in a room full of tightly packed people?

If you watch the Mount Olive District event I always loaded the Blue Alliance field first. That queue was slow to move. In walking by one of the robots on the field I got shirt caught by a piece of aluminum projecting only because the robot was in a perfectly reasonable configuration for the field.

So realistically speaking, even if the robot is not driving, putting the robot fully expanded on the floor in the pits moving requires a fair deal of consideration to keep people out of the work envelope and the potential drop away of the tote.

I wouldn't object as long as it was clear the area in the work envelope was actively patrolled.

This could be easily addressed by the venue offering a floor level area for testing in addition to the practice field.
For example at Mount Olive High School we certainly have a lot of floor we could offer for temporary use.
If you walked back by our machine shop table there was a large section of the lobby back there empty.