Daily+Log

Home Initial Design Final Design August 30 - Figuring out our design was the first challenge but we figured out a viable method of picking up the golf ball. We still have to figure out the methods of transportation and need to find the perfect elevation to attain the best leverage on the ball. We brainstormed today and came up with a few skeptical ideas.

August 31 - We got the robot built with the crane at the perfect elevation to pick up the golf ball.

September1 - Today was the day we got our programming done. We decided to just go the long way instead of taking the short cut. We determined the amount of turns, how long to go a certain direction and etc.

September 2 - We did our first run today but we were cut short on dropping the golf ball into the container. We were able to have the robot do everything else though. To fix up this problem, we thought up of different ways we could drop/roll the ball into the container. One method was the retreat backwards once we got to the container and then speed up right after. This would create torque which, in the end, creates a greater momentum for the ball to swung into the container. Another thought was the just simply ride up the the container and the laws of physics would state that the ball would continue with it's own velocity even though the robot is stopped only if there is no other force acting upon the ball. With all these thoughts, we called it a day.

September 5 - We weren't able to succeed like we did on our previous day.

September 6 - While testing, we realized that the robot would stutter while going across the short strip. To solve this, we added pauses before and after the turn, so it wouldn't just move immediately after turning and lowered the motor's power level. This solved that problem. During our second run, the wheel clipped the wooden thing while turnign onto the goal side, so we failed there. We'll build on more accuracy tomorrow.

September 7 - We succeeded!