As noted, if the robot is partly in Base, then there's no Robot Penalty for touching it (Rule 43), but the robot will need to be restarted to continue.

The robot is allowed to be in contact with a mission model when you rescue it--however, Rule 49, Chain Reactions, and Rule 50, Reversible Changes warn against making changes to objects outside Base when the robot is offline.

Rule 8, Mission, says that the team gets to decide when to do what, and may retry missions, but the field is not reset if the autonomous robot has changed it.

Steve Scherr
VA-DC FLL Referee Advisor

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Frank Levine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
That part is quite clear.  This was dealing with the interesting condition of being "not completely outside base", failing to satisfactorily complete a mission, still touching the mission model, and being restarted with no penalty.  I think that the final answer is "yes", and my team will have their copy of the rules and updates if it comes up at the tournament tomorrow :)

-Frank


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, VA-DC Referee Advisor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Yes, the robot may retry anything that it hasn't destroyed. 


On Friday, November 21, 2014, Frank Levine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I have a question about the "Opening Doors" mission.  Occasionally the robot "misses" and fails to push the lever down.  Can the operators pick up the robot and restart the mission at this point.  The robot is both touching base and potentially touching the door.  In our practices, we usually have 5-10 seconds left, so we definitely have time for a retry.

Thanks,
Frank Levine
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