pic: Robot Bumpers

[Russ Beavis]

It's becoming obvious that I need to officially release the inspector training materials ASAP. The new materials will include a set of "good"/"bad" diagrams that should, I hope, ensure regional-to-regional inspection consistency. Please check the website with the FIRST manuals often for the inspection materials (I'm sure that a Team Update will probably indicate when the docs are available as well).

After you read the inspection materials, do NOT be surprised if your robot inspector deems the above bumper configuration to be ILLEGAL. The Section 8 Robot Rules and various GDC Q&A responses have always required 6" bumper segments on both sides of every "exterior corner". The diagram at the top of this thread does not have the required 6" segments at every corner ("corner" being EVERY vertex in the Bumper Perimeter).

From my perspective, I think that R08 would be more painfully clear if the word "exterior" were removed from "exterior corners" and figures 8-2 and 8-3 were updated to either officially declare the unlabeled features to be "NOT OK" or fix them so that they are "OK".

Russ Beavis
Chief Inspector