Solution for uniform ramming penalty calls

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Honestly, I don't see it as a problem. Unless you make your robot out of cardboard, no 120 pound robot going 9 ft/s is going to damage it all that much...We'd drive, full speed, into the wall at the human loader zone. Is that not similar to another robot slamming, full speed, into another robot?

It's similar, but it's not the same. If your robot gets rammed from the side, the wheels take loads they're not intended to handle. If you get hit by one corner of a fast-moving robot, the impact is concentrated at that point and can definitely dent or bend a non-cardboard frame. Bumpers help, but they can't prevent being damaged by a too-hard hit.