Frame Perimeter when climbing tower?

[Bob Steele]

Originally Posted by Ariane Nazemi

So just to clarify, this means that a robot scaling the tower with its wheels touching the tower wall would have a scaling mechanism that becomes illegal? (Greater than 15 inches)

Correct

[Basel A]

This rule is going to be crazy hard to enforce (like the 2013 cylinder rule). Good luck to the referees!

[Ariane Nazemi]

It seems like this rule makes hanging unnecessarily difficult. Teams are going to have a hard enough time hanging in any orientation.

[Munchskull]

Wow. Not only do we have to hang but we have to hang while mantaining bumpers that a te relitively perpendicular to the hanging mechanism? Well I am out. Not worth it. The rules out 99% of hanging solutions that use a cable or rotation enable devices. $5 says that they will changes this in a rule update, due to the the intention of the task. Of course I am not the GDC so I am just speculating.

[mockingod]

Note: I understand that the rule is possible to change.

I showed my teammate this thread and tried to explain it to them and they couldn't really understand what rule you guys were exactly debating so I made crappy cartoon diagram in MS paint that might be useful if you're ever debating with a teammate about this rule for whatever reason.

http://i.imgur.com/SIZCRUt.png

(I don't think the rule is super dumb. I don't think any rules are dumb, rules are rules. I just put that last bit in there for laughs by my team)

[MrBasse]

I like this rule. It's just like climbing in 2013, the cylinder made it tough, then they made that cylinder move with the robot and it got a lot easier. This time the perimeter moving with the robot actually makes it harder. Remember, this is an engineering challenge. If scaling were easy, everyone would do it and nobody would be impressed. But now, it is just complicated enough that you can't just toss a hook up there and winch yourself up. Good work GDC, good work.

To the OP, what combo of cylinders were you planning to use to curl yourself 90 degrees?

[martin417]

Here is a quick sketch in CREO showing the minimum distace outside the frame perimeter required to reach the rung. I allowed 3 1/2" for bumpers. The hook must protrude at least 10 inches from the frame perimeter to grab the bar. That gives you a five inch margin.


https://plus.google.com/117322302265...ts/aGrqUdk87dU

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by martin417

Here is a quick sketch in CREO showing the minimum distace outside the frame perimeter required to reach the rung. I allowed 3 1/2" for bumpers. The hook must protrude at least 10 inches from the frame perimeter to grab the bar. That gives you a five inch margin.


https://plus.google.com/117322302265...ts/aGrqUdk87dU

Just to be clear, this is assuming a 36" long robot. If your robot has a shorter wheel base (Which I assume many will), there's more of your robot on the batter and the worse your angle gets. I used 2.5" for my sketch for bumpers for some reason so if you bump my sketch out another inch on the bottom the tolerances are razor thin. Impossible for refs to judge. Terrible Q & A ruling IMO.

[martin417]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Just to be clear, this is assuming a 36" long robot. If your robot has a shorter wheel base (Which I assume many will), there's more of your robot on the batter and the worse your angle gets. I used 2.5" for my sketch for bumpers for some reason so if you bump my sketch out another inch on the bottom the tolerances are razor thin. Impossible for refs to judge. Terrible Q & A ruling IMO.

The length of the robot makes no difference. You also do not need to touch the wall of the tower as in your sketch, just reach over the rung.

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by martin417

The length of the robot makes no difference. You also do not need to touch the wall of the tower as in your sketch, just reach over the rung.

Not sure why you think that. The sketch below demonstrates the longer your wheel base is, the easier it will be to stay within the 15" rule while attempting to scale.

[Jared]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Not sure why you think that. The sketch below demonstrates the longer your wheel base is, the easier it will be to stay within the 15" rule while attempting to scale.

The ramp on the batter is 48" long, so I don't think many teams will have robots contact the carpet while they are grabbing a rung.

[martin417]

Originally Posted by Justin Montois

Not sure why you think that. The sketch below demonstrates the longer your wheel base is, the easier it will be to stay within the 15" rule while attempting to scale.

So, you plan to build a robot that is excess of 48" in length? Then you will be less than 12 inches in width. I doubt you would make it to the tower before you fell over, so climbing becomes a moot point. I should have said that

"within the design constraints of a reasonable robot that can play the game, length makes no difference."

[Crew Cox]

Thanks for all the support guys, glad I asked. This is going to be a heck of a game for the refs to keep track of.

[EricLeifermann]

The rung you are grabbing onto is not flush with the tower walll. It sticks out, everyone should be well with in the 15 in limit when grabbing the rung. Now how you pull up your robot to stay with in the rules is another matter.

[rich2202]

In practice the Frame Perimeter rule is more enforced by RI's than the Ref's. The Ref's are not about to take out a tape measure and walk onto the field during play. The RI's will check for maximum extension during the inspection process. They will look at the robot as it is sitting on the ground.