Coding

The group has decided to use the color sensor to determine whether the robot should counter-attack the other robot and push out of the ring or keep pushing the other one outward.

The following is the simple code that the group has so far:

The robot moves forward, and once the color sensor that is detached on the back of the robot, for now, sensors the white ring, it makes an arc turn and starts moving forward.

The group will, later, add on an ultrasonic sensor for finding the opponent.

One other problem the group has noticed in lab is that the group's first prototype has good power, meaning explosive, but less agility due to the motor-torque ratio. This is a very bad disadvantage when the robot is trying to get away from the edge of the ring and to counter-attack. During the lab in week 4, the group will try to work on agility as containing the power.

The group's first prototype

Here is the first prototype for our robot. Comment if you have any idea on what can be improved or altered.

By the way, I already test the push power of the bot. It was able to move the Chem and Calc textbooks when stacked. But the problem was that I had to push the bot down so that it could get traction. See if you can come up with anything that will help with that.

Designing Process and models

Since this is an engineering project we might as well include the engineering design process...

this should help us stay on track of what we're doing...

I've also started doing some research into the project it's shown below:

These are some examples of how people have gone about solving the problem we are currently faced with