Carrying <G44>

[kirtar]

Originally Posted by jvriezen

Seems like an upper surface on your robot made of memory foam to reduce bouncing, contoured and sloped such that balls hitting the foam will tend to land in front of the robot would be a good idea.

Since the robot is encouraged to be designed to not unintentionally carry balls, you have to have some sort of sloping top, might as well make it slope in your favor, and construct it of material in your favor.

Or is this going to violate the rules?

How I'm thinking about it I doubt it will break the rules, but that depends on implementation. If you put some kind of siding on it that would cause the relative position to not change while you turn then you should be fine. Any changes in velocity of your robot are unlikely to have a significant impact on the absolute velocity/position of the ball, causing a definite change in relative position. The only thing that I'm concerned about is what you mean by contoured. If you mean putting a track to direct the ball, I think that's a little questionable.