We’re thinking of making some mods to our bot where it’d end up looking similar to this in the sense that when both mechanisms are fully extended, it exceeds the 19" length limit. Neither mechanism by itself would cause the bot to get longer than 19" throughout its operational range.
We found this in the manual: “For example, a Robot with mechanisms that can extend out of opposite sides of the Robot would be legal, so long as the Robot never exceeds 11” x 19” at any point during the Match. Teams who have the potential to violate this rule should be prepared to demonstrate how they will limit this motion during a Match.”
How would we demonstrate that? In programming skills matches, our code is written so that only one mechanism is being operated at one time whereas the other mechanism is fully lowered thus keeping the length < 19". Would that be sufficient? I could have my drivers swear on a Bible that they’d never operate both mechanisms in a driving skills match…