Legality of this idea?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

Well... kind of. 1114 did not use Cheesy Vision, although a number of other teams (including Team 20) did. 1114, I believe, had a Kinect on their drivers station that they signaled to.

OK, looking back, the 2014 auto rules were pretty basic and left more holes than I recalled. While not given a specific rule/foul number, this still was against the first line of page 3:

Originally Posted by 2014 manual

The match begins with one 10-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver.

There were only 3 auto rules that year:

• G15, stating that robots had to stay on their half of the field, or within the goalie zone as appropriate
• G16, "TEAM members..must remain behind the STARTING LINE..
• G17 During AUTO, any control devices worn or held by the DRIVERS must be disconnected from the OPERATOR CONSOLE.

Going back and looking at those rules, the truly scary item was if G18 from 2014 would have been brought into 2016:

Originally Posted by 2014 G18

ROBOTS may be neither fully nor partially supported by other ROBOTS.
Violation: If extended, strategic, or repeated, TECHNICAL FOUL.

From the way this is written, the technical foul would be applied to the robot being supported. That is, when one robot was in the process of tipping over another robot through uneven (but legal) bumper-to-bumper contact, the robot being tipped could (if the support were repeated or extended) be found guilty of a technical foul.

Further, robots on the same alliance which tortuga each other through forming a "tent" would both be guilty of a technical foul. That would have been adding insult to injury.