2016 HOTBOT

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Looks like they are still with in the 15 inches though it may be close. Problem with G18 is that is almost impossible to enforce unless its quite obvious that the 15 inches has been exceeded.

My recollection from ref certification training (which I completed this year) is that refs are to use their best judgement based on what they can see without entering the field. You can see the ref in the picture, doing just that. Keeping in mind that the configuration I linked only existed for a second or less, and that the final configuration is clearly a legal scale, I think that ref made the right call. No G18.

However, I would expect refs to get better at seeing momentary configurations as the season progresses, so HOT's programmers are smart to have already implemented a fix that eliminates the issue.

[Legator91]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Great robot! HOT's performance this season is clearly at the very high standard that 67 has set for itself during many previous seasons, and the statistical results speak for themselves.

One question: in this picture, it appears that G18 is violated; see example A in Fig. 3-2, in the blue box under G18 in the Manual. Is this typical the climb method 67 used at Waterford? Was the potential G18 violation observed/mentioned by referees, or during robot inspection?

We had that mentioned to us by another team. We never had a reff say anything to us. However, we did modify our hang code to ensure that the robot remains parallel to the floor as it hangs now.