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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

We hosted a 23 team FLL tournament this weekend (it was the only date we could get a venue) and everyone (and more importantly I) was pretty beat by Saturday evening. (I was setting up the kick-off course on Saturday morning early so I was gone pretty much from 6:30 to 7:30.) So we gave the kids time off until our meeting this evening. Now I have to wonder tonight whether we should really have two design tracks, one for the 60" and one for the 213.4 cm dimensions?

The design implications are pretty significant depending on which rule is correct. If it is 60", I think it makes mecanum and swerve drive much more likely, because there will not be a lot of room to use reach to get tubes onto racks. If it is 213.4 cm then more designs are possible.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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Unlike previous years' cylinder rules, the BUMPERS are excluded from the measurement this year - thank goodness if the measurement is really 60 inches. See <R11-B>.
Because the front bumper is in the way of your mechanism, it effectively counts (while the back bumper does not)
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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Unlike previous years' cylinder rules, the BUMPERS are excluded from the measurement this year - thank goodness if the measurement is really 60 inches. See <R11-B>.
My point was that having the bumpers on the front side means the manipulator has to accomodate that as well - it most likely means a longer arm to get to the ground.

In 2007 - the last tube game, the bumper requirements were different.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

These limitations also affect your thinking about how big the drive base should be. If you go for a smaller base, you'll get more room to extend your manipulator. No wonder they say the minibot cannot go after the game pieces. Mini, mini, Mini, go fetch!
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

Minibot deployment mechanisms could be built to help get a little more room out of this restriction because the minibot itself (The portion that detaches from the hostbot) is not considered in volume limitations.

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For the purposes of determining compliance with the weight and volume limitations, the items listed below are NOT considered part of the ROBOT and are NOT included in the weight and volume assessment:
A. the 12V battery and its associated half of the Anderson cable quick connect/disconnect pair (including no more than 12” of cable per leg, the associated cable lugs, connecting bolts, and insulating electrical tape),
B. BUMPER assemblies (including BUMPER covers, if appropriate) that are in compliance with Rules <R07> and <R08>,
C. the OPERATOR CONSOLE, and
D. the MINIBOT.
So if we were to only touch the minibot from the back you could extend it past the 60" mark(or whatever the dimension truly is).
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

By my reading, the MINIBOT is not even included in the STARTING CONFIGURATION. Wow.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

Cool, all my team has to do is Velcro a minibot to a swing-out PVC stick. A drawer-like design reaches less far because of the circle.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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My point was that having the bumpers on the front side means the manipulator has to accomodate that as well - it most likely means a longer arm to get to the ground.

In 2007 - the last tube game, the bumper requirements were different.
I definitely agree with your point. No cutouts in the bumpers definitely hurts compared to the 07 bots. The bumper zone this year does begin at 1" though, so theres some consolation.

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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

Well I hope that the official answer comes quick.

Hard to come up with potential designs at this point, but my guess is that they will stick with the 60" rule.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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I definitely agree with your point. No cutouts in the bumpers definitely hurts compared to the 07 bots. The bumper zone this year does begin at 1" though, so theres some consolation.

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Could you tell me the rule which specifies the bumper zone this year? I haven't been able to find this dimension in "The Robot Rev -" or "The Game Rev -" Thanks
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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The dimension is in the definitions for Bumper Zone. I have asked to include it in the bumper rules in the future.
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

Um, thanks to all for showing me that square robots don't (easily) fit into round holes. While this doesn't prevent an arm, it certainly adds to the challenge of using one.

Deploying minibots won't be as much of an issue: If I have an 8" square minibot, I have about 3" between the edge of the minibot and the pole (assuming minibot is centered on the 1.75" pole). 18+3=21, I only need 15-3=12. Maybe a 24" stroke pneumatic piston to whack the minibot onto the pole....

Inspection: I propose that we supply 60" I.D. right cylinders of infinite height to each venue for inspection. OK, even 30 feet tall would be impressive...
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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Well I hope that the official answer comes quick.

Hard to come up with potential designs at this point, but my guess is that they will stick with the 60" rule.
Absolutely agree, this is causing our team to branch into 2 separate design pathways waiting to hear an update from FIRST. I do hope that they stick with the metric rule for this :/
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

The rule gives you two possible diameters that your robot must stay within, 60" or 213.4 cm. I know which one we're using.

Seriously, I have a strong hunch the correction will turn out to be 84". Looking at the table, it is easy to imagine how the 60" could have been a typo, mixed up with the 60" in the starting height box. How likely is it that you would accidentally pull the number 213.4 out of the air as a typo?
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Re: <R11> Dimension wrong?

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THow likely is it that you would accidentally pull the number 213.4 out of the air as a typo?
It's not that I'm worried about. It's the cylinder starting at 84" and the GDC revising it to 60" to give us all headaches then leaving the conversion that worries me.
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