| | Fun With Robots
| | | | This was a StuCo ("student college", little courses about random topics, mostly taught by students) course run by the co-presidents of the robotics club. We built our own little robot using a comercial chip, soldering together a board, and attaching a bread board for extentions.
A close-up of my robot, notice the two photosensors and 3 IR emitter/detector pairs precariously balanced on the breadboard.
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My robot in action... it's lost in the maze.
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It's charging towards the exit now!
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The main focus of the class was to build a robot that could navigate a maze. Mine used the bug algorithm, a very simplistic algorithm that follows a wall until it gets out. In this case I had my robot try to keep a wall to it's right side. Notice that in addition to the one in front, I have two detectors on the right side; one in the corner and one in the middle. Just outside the maze there was a bright light which was out beacon that we tried to go to. I had a pair of sensors in the middle looking to the left and right, however they were angled too far forward so I missed the light and ran off the table! | |
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