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Bumper Zone Clarification
The way I'm reading R23, the Bumper zone is located from the floor to 7" high. With the bumpers being 5" high and needing to be contained in that zone, wouldn't that mean that the maximum bumper height would be 2" off the floor or am I reading that wrong?
R23. BUMPERS must be located entirely within the BUMPER ZONE, which is the volume contained between the floor and a virtual horizontal plane 7 in. (~17 cm) above the floor in reference to the ROBOT standing normally on a flat floor. BUMPERS do not have to be parallel to the floor. |
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
You read it correctly.
The bumpers are very low this year (and a good thing too ) |
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
You are reading that correctly. But please note that few (if any) bumpers are actually just 5" tall. the 5" is the plywood backing, but then you wrap fabric around that, add on the option angle to clamp everything down, and you've added another 1/4" or so to the total height of the bumpers.
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
The GDC often makes a lot of engineering decisions for teams via the size constraints and bumper rules. This year is no exception. Nobody wants to watch matches with potentially good robots getting beached on the Fuel spilled on the floor, so the GDC made sure everyone should be able to just push them out of the way.
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
Not really possible. Those gears are ~3 in thick.
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
According to Section 3.12.2, they are 2 inches thick.
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Re: Bumper Zone Clarification
Wheels don't always stay on the ground like they're supposed to though. Especially if you pick a tall bot this year, I'm thinking.
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