Does anyone see a rule prohibiting hooking the robot to the bar and folding the robot up (so the plane of the bottom of the bot would end up perpendicular to the “field floor”) opposed to the dead-lift hoist of the whole bot (so the plane of the bottom of the bot would remain parallel to the “field floor”)?
The glossary defines climbing as
CLIMBING - A ROBOT fully supported by the SCALE (either directly or transitively) with BUMPERS fully above the BRICKS at T=0, and not at all in the opponent’s PLATFORM ZONE
As long as your bumpers are fully above, I would think it would count. I haven’t yet seen any rule that expressly prohibits it. I know for sure that teams did in in 2016 (148 for example) so it may be a viable design. Might be a question for Q+A.
I think I see how 148 folded AND kept in the rules. Their mechanism never went outside of the allowable envelope: https://youtu.be/1QOYdA5IPJQ?t=122 That was well done.
During endgame
G05 does not apply on the platform (no 16" restriction)
I personally don’t see a problem here
See page 51, section G05 as mentioned by Boltman.
The blue note just below G05 reads:
Teams should be cognizant of venue height, camera poles, lighting
trusses etc. when designing their ROBOT.Examples of compliance and non-compliance of G05 are shown in
Figure 7-1.Yellow bars represent the limits of the FRAME PERIMETER and are
drawn in the same orientation of the ROBOT’S FRAME PERIMETER.
Green bars represent a measured extension from the FRAME
PERIMETER that has not been exceeded. Red bars represent a
measured extension from the FRAME PERIMETER that has exceeded
the limit in G05). ROBOT A violates G05, whereas ROBOT B and C do
not.
And includes the following picture:
https://i.imgur.com/pMO0DcI.png
You should be good to go. First encourages that. 2016 and 2010 games this was done. Read and videos worth their weight in gold.
Thank you Mentor Mac