Hello guys,
I am the head designer for team 5161 and I just have 2 questions for all of you. One is about the rules and another about pneumatics. My rule question is if it is legal for a robot to have two 30" extending parts coming out of the build frame at one time? Or can there only be one 30" extending part at a time. My pneumatic question is if you can run 3 pistons off of only one double solenoid valve if they are all doing the same thing? Thank you all!
-5161
Yes to both questions.
You can move outside the frame area in as many “locations” as you want.
The way I understand the extension rule is 30" beyond frame perimeter, therefore 29" in both directions is fully legal as I understand the rule (See R4 on page 64)
Thank you so much!
Question 1: Yes, so long as no point is >30" from your frame perimeter you can occupy the entire volume shown in Figure 10-1.
Question 2: Yes. You may feed any number of pistons off of a single port (though your actuation speed will suffer).
Though note that you cannot have more than one solenoid feeding to a single side of a piston. (If you can trace a route from a output port of a solenoid to any other output port of any other solenoid without going through the solenoid, it’s illegal)