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Re: Articulating chassis???
we threw this idea around a bit, and we so far see the most problem with the bumpers:
if the robot articulates in any way, even if it has a fixed frame to hold the bumpers, it would change the height of the bumpers and if they leave the bumper zone, that's illegal.
you could perhaps design a system to hold the bumpers at the correct height at all times, but I'm thinking that's overkill considering that most "normal" robots should be fine just driving into bump slowly to get over it...
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