In competition, we were told that our robot needed to move fully onto a specific tile to start autonomous. We were lined up with the far edge of the tile’s interlocking “teeth” and were told by a match official that this was not “on the tile” and it needed to be lined up with the inside edge of the “teeth”.
I asked several veteran teams and coaches that had no answer to this, so I’m posing the question here – what defines the “tile”? Is it just the inside area sans the “teeth”, or does it include them? It seemed extremely ticky-tacky to call our team out on and ultimately it’s not a big deal, but with the nature of how the tiles are put together, they overlap some. Anyone have an answer?
By rule, the robot is supposed to start “Completely In” one of two tiles.
If the interlocking teeth are considered part of a tile, then if a robot would be over that intersection, then it would technically be “In” 2 different tiles as opposed to “Completely In” one of them.
