pic: Robot Bumpers

[rjohnson]

What would be the point of building a robot with this configuration? I don't know who likes to use less space than they are given to build their robot. Going to this much trouble to add a few extra degrees for trailer movement doesn't make any sense either. Can anyone enlighten me with why this design element is so important?

Also, anybody who wants to do something like this should be careful with <R18E>, which refers to damaging the trailer tongue with bumper contact. If you REALLY wanted to make something like this, I guess you could make it rounded as long as the tangent to the bumper near the trailer is parallel to the side of the robot. It would be much more difficult to fabricate though.

Just to go along with what everyone else is talking about, I think that this configuration is illegal because of the "both sides of the corner" rule. However, I think there are other questions to ask first.