Hi, my team has a robot with an elevation that can be made more consistent if we are able to temporarily use the feild perimeter to balance/lift our robot to the elevated position. We are aware that the robot can not touch the feild perimeter at the end of the match, but we are unsure if it is illegal to touch the wall temporarily as long as the contact is over by the end of the match. Would this be legal?
It should be legal as long as the bot isn’t touching the wall at the end of the match.
Be aware of
<G7> Don’t clamp your Robot to the field. Robots may not intentionally grasp, grapple, or attach to any Field Elements. Strategies with mechanisms that react against multiple sides of a Field Element in an effort to latch or clamp onto said Field Element are prohibited. The intent of this rule is to prevent Teams from both unintentionally damaging the field and/or from anchoring themselves to the field…
Note: An Alliance’s own Elevation Bars and Match Load Bars are exceptions to this rule, i.e., there is no penalty for clamping onto them.
Violation Notes: Major Violations of this rule should be rare, as Robots should never be designed to intentionally violate it.
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