Viquar, et al.,



 no, no, absolutely not.  Anything that the team touches and places on

the field for action must be *completely* within Base.  That includes

every robot attachment and all cargo.



The entire robot, all the robot attachments, and all robot cargo must

be completely within Base and stationary before the robot is

restarted. Rule 16:  "For the match start and all restarts, EVERY BIT

of the robot, including its installed attachments & wires, everything

touching it, and any objects it is about to move or use, must ALL fit

COMPLETELY in Base."



Any object that the team places in Base for the robot to encounter

while traveling through Base (this is Staging, Rule 14) must be

completely in Base.





Attachments:

Anything that you build and connect to the robot ("connect" means that

it fails the Gravity Test in Rule 10) is part of the robot.  Typically

we refer to assemblies that the team puts on and takes off the robot

as attachments.  Other things that the team builds that aren't the

robot (connected to the NXT or RCX brick) or attachments are called

"non-robot equipment" or "strategic objects" (Rule 4).



Mission models are never attachments to the robot--for one thing, your

team didn't make them.  A mission model being transported by the robot

is Cargo (Rule 11).



In the particular case of sending the trailer back to the dock from

Base,  Rule 16 also states "All mission models in Base must be able to

pass the gravity test."  So the trailer may not be "connected" to the

robot as part of a restart, so you wouldn't consider it to be attached

in any sense.



So, no, the refrigerated trailer will never be considered to be an

attachment of the robot.



Footnote:  There was one Robot Game about 5 years ago when it was

possibly advantageous for the team to decide whether an object should

be considered in Base (or a storage area) or still in play.  It's

highly unlikely that that will be the case for the trailer this year,

but referees will deal with that if it arises.  If the team touches

the robot or its cargo, then all of those items must be taken into

Base anyway, so this caveat would only apply to objects that were not

cargo when the robot/cargo was touched.



Steve Scherr

VA/DC FLL Referee Advisor





On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Viquar Shaikh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello

>

> At the time of returning the refrigerated trailer to the dock area - is the

> refrigerated trailer considered an 'attachment' of the robot?? In other

> words, can the trailer be partly outside base while the robot in its

> entirety be in base??

>

> --

> Thanks,

> Viquar

> Team # 1371

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