For our robot this year we wanted to have an inner angle so that when we go to deploy the minibot we could hit it with the inner angle and always be straight on to the pole is this allowed?
According to the rules “BUMPERS must provide complete protection of the entire FRAME PERIMETER of the ROBOT (i.e. BUMPERS must wrap entirely around the ROBOT). As part of the 100% coverage, BUMPERS must protect all exterior corners of the FRAME PERIMETER. For adequate protection, a full segment of BUMPER must be placed on each side of the corner”
but it also says “The
BUMPER location and design have been specified so that ROBOTS will make
BUMPER-to-BUMPER contact during most collisions. If implemented as intended, a ROBOT that is pushed against a vertical wall in any STARTING CONFIGURATION
will always have the BUMPER be the first thing to contact the wall.”
so reading these over we should be able to do this but we wanted to be sure before we just started cutting and welding