Today we built a two wheeled programmable robot, which we began programming with simple tasks. This robot is an arduino based bot, fully equiped with bumper, light, and ultrasonic sensor. The robot will be used in our project for this week, as it will carry the second robot, as it guides people to safety in a disaster scenario.
We programmed Robot C to create a virtual robot capable of maneuvering through a small maze, and tracking, and following a line. This exercise was meant to simulate what our robot will be doing in the physical world during our final test.
We programmed our autonomous robot to navigate on its own. This robot uses an ultrasonic distance sensor to avoid obstacles. The robot drives forward until it senses an object. When it does, it will reverse and turn to avoid the obstacle.
We also began building the tread-based robot which will be carried atop the RedBot in our weekly project. To finish this build, we will attach the battery, and operation switch, and will then fasten the twin-motor gearbox, which we also began working on today (see below).