Routing (Part Three)

29-30th Dec 2012 - The 15th and 16th meeting dealed with routing. Going from Pointers to Static Array.

Routing (Part Two)

22-28th Dec 2012 - The 13th and 14th meeting dealed with routing. Starting on a Pointers solution to address variable number of moves.

Routing (Part One)

15-16th Dec 2012 - The 11th and 12th meeting dealed with routing. How to go around in the board towards a destination.

Lost in identification

15-16th Dec 2012 - The 9th and 10th meeting dealed with entering data about the game, distances and object recognition.

Movement abstraction

9th Dec 2012 - The 8th meeting dealed with robot control abstraction. We created functions to allow controlling the robot from an external point of view (map view).

Create random movements

02 Dec 2012 - The goal was to continue improving the robot movements. First of all we adapted the algorithm to generate random movements (sometime it moves to right sometimes it moves to left).

Improve Robot Structure

01th Dec 2012 - In seventh meeting we discussed about robot structure because we noticed it was very heavy, specially in front part. This fact gave us a problem because the pivot was handling a heavy weight, because of that, it didn´t slide well.

Project summary (EN)

On a 6x6 table we'll have the Toast Man (our robot), Miss Butter (the goal), the Mold (the villain), the Toaster (a trap) and 5 barriers.The Toast Man has to reach Miss Butter without being caught by the Mold.

How to work

24th Nov 2012 - The sixth meeting was experimenting with advanced motor control, managing to rotate a pre-determined amount. And the question now is: How to build appropriate functions allowing a deep robot control.

And it's alive...

10th Nov 2012 - The fith meeting was all about seeing some action on the robot.

Sensor Mounting

01st and 3rd Nov 2012 - The third and fourth meeting was about setting the sensors on the robot. But we built the structure on the opposite side of the wheels because of lack of connection points.This means less weight on the wheels.

Start of Robot build

27th Oct 2012 - The second meeting was already in the Droid Lab, to start constructing the robot. We followed a couple of approaches before agreeing on a model.

Task acknowledgment

20th Oct 2012 - The first group meeting served to take a deeper reading of the problem, look into similar projects and start creating the conceptual scheme of the questions involved. 

From this meeting we revolved around the following themes