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Confusing rule: Finale Configuration

FINALE CONFIGURATION 84 inch (213.4cm) diameter vertical right cylindrical volume

What is right cylindrical volume? Is there a wrong/ left one? 0.o

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FINALE CONFIGURATION 84 inch (213.4cm) diameter vertical right cylindrical volume

What is right cylindrical volume? Is there a wrong/ left one? 0.o

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Geometry.

Take a piece of paper and wrap it around a soda can. You have a right circular cylinder.

Right refers to the angle of the long axis (or height) to the base plane.
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Re: Confusing rule: Finale Configuration

So a robot with length 38 would be able to reach 23 inches away from the longest side in a straight line perpendicular from the center before violating the rule?

I got 23 through
38/2=19 half the lenght
84/2=42 half the diameter
42-19=23 half the diameter minus half the lenght

it would also be able to reach a max of 28 inches from the width if its width is 28 inches
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So a robot with length 38 would be able to reach 23 inches away from the longest side in a straight line perpendicular from the center before violating the rule?

I got 23 through
38/2=19 half the lenght
84/2=42 half the diameter
42-19=23 half the diameter minus half the lenght
If your robot is centered on the cylinder, yes. Note, however, that you are wasting a lot of reach doing this.

A longer-reaching, though harder to work with, geometry is this: Take the back side of the robot and place it so the corners are on the circle (the base of the cylinder). This forms a secant of 28". Now run a line right down the middle of the robot to the far side of the circle. The length of that line is the reach you have to work with.
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Re: Confusing rule: Finale Configuration

We had to have a guy in PHD physics to help us out the best way i could think from him said is. Take a pop can put it on a cd or dvd and you can tilt it in different but u cant leave the parameters of the disk.
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We had to have a guy in PHD physics to help us out the best way i could think from him said is. Take a pop can put it on a cd or dvd and you can tilt it in different but u cant leave the parameters of the disk.
But it's defined relative to the robot (<R10>), so tilt the CD with the can.
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