Beware of R16 your robot design may be too big.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by ALIBI

I printed your diagram and believe that the robot would be allowed. I marked the longest lenght I could get across the circle on a piece of paper and then compared that to the horizontal distance between opposite corners of the robot and manipulator. It appear to be the same, meaning that the corners were 80 inches appart. What happens when I do that is that center of the cylinder is centered between the two points you are measuring. The interpretation does not say that no other part of the robot can be outside of an 80" diameter cylinder when measuring. The measurement is point to point. To apply my understanding of the interpretation I think you should place the center of a 160" cylinder on any part of your robot, if any other part of your robot sticks out of that cylinder, you have violated the rule.

EDIT: My analysis assumes that the cylinder is 80" since that is the way most of the references to R16 have been in CD, that the robot must fit inside an 80" cylinder.

The way i understand the rule is as follows and this the way i explained it to the team: If you were to place a 80" diameter coke can, with the bottom removed, over the robot, would the can sit entirely on the ground ground or would part of it sit on your robot. If it sits on the robot, then we are breaking the size rule. The thumbnail is question would only be legal if it was oriented so that it's largest length was 80" and no other part of the robot was outside of the cylinder.