Propulsion that does not involve driving wheels

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

I get the feeling that all of you are serious in thinking that increasing the normal force is not legal?
Finally, a voice of reason. Thank You Kevin.


With the caveat that my proposal was to use fans horizontally to push air and move the robot and not to push downwards harder (since the effect would be somewhat, as Kevin puts it, silly) I have to say...

If increasing the normal force is not legal, then your robot must weigh nothing, since adding ANY weight at all increases the normal force. Clearly, we are allowed robots that weight something...

I am not saying that adding weight is illegal. However, what I am saying is that using a fan or other method to effectively increase your weight beyond the 120# + battery + bumpers is. I have no problem with teams going right up to 120.0, even using a fan. But as soon as you use some of that weight to add extra weight on top of the 120.0, then I have a problem. I would assume that the others who said that would say the same thing.

Again, I have no problem with adding stuff up to the limit; I have a problem with using some of that to go beyond the limit.