Week 3: Monday, April 11, 2011

  

Today was the test for our robot to follow a line for 2 laps and stop on the red square. We were not able to get the sensor to effectively discern between red and black so we abandoned any hope of getting it to stop by that method.

Initially the line was very narrow and we were only able to get out robot to work by slowing it way down. Christof, the professor, then decided to thicken the line and we started testing how fast we can set our robot without losing the path. Our optimization of speed proved to be a success and our robot performed the 2 laps in the shortest amount of time.

As for stopping, Steven decided that since we couldnt get detection of red to work he would program it to stop after a certain amount of time. He spent much back and forth work, as we adjusted the speed as well, but eventually got it stop very close after 2 laps. Unfortunately, it was not close enough to count as stopping at the red square so we lost those points.

                                                    My test track at home.