Hello, I noticed that the rules only mention the height of obstacles and don’t provide details about their other dimensions. Are there any specific limits on their size?
I think there are only some implicit limits, i.e. max the size of a tile (30x30 cm) as well as the required distances to walls/edges.
At some competitions (e.g., super-regional) you might also find varying obstacle sizes.
Thank you for your response.
But if there isn’t any limit for the obstacle from another line, when the robot moves to overcome an obstacle, it may inadvertently detect a line from another tile. This misdetection can confuse its navigation, potentially resulting in a lack of progress.
And by that, you meant there could be an obstacle covering a whole tile?
About the line: Rules say that the obstacle will only occupy one line. It doesn’t say anything about the distance to the closest other line.
But note that both aspects are only what the rules permit. Speaking as someone who designs parcours for some of the competitions in Germany, I can tell you that we try to build parcours that robots and teams can actually succeed in. Of course we also try to make it challenging, but not impossible. So you may expect the closest line to be at least 5, 10, or more centimeters away from the obstacle.
Obstacle covering a whole tile is also more of a theoretical limit.
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