| Up to 11/6/03 | The Carpet Rover robot has arrived.
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The Carpet Rover has been assembled and the motors have been attached to the OOPic chip
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Infrared communication has been established
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| | Up to 11/10/03 | The Carpet Rover has working motors and can advance forward for a time period and make a 90 degree turn on the Robotable.
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Infrared communication has been integrated with the LCD screen. The LCD screen outputs the negated input of the IR circuit.
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The photoresistors have arrived.
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| Up to 12/07/03 | The robot team is functional. The light sensing circuit pulses through its rotation and flashes its LED's when it finds the source of greatest light.
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| The IR also finally works! The range is quite short and as a result we are forced to pick up the mobile robot and bring it over to the stationary robot for communication to take place. However, communication can take place!! |
| The robot also travels to the correct location when it receives the IR information correctly! |
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| Up to 12/08/03 | The Robots were presented to the Robotics Academy. Due to difficulties in Infrared communication, the mobile robot ended up in the incorrect location.
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| Next term we plan to make some changes, most importantly, switching to a Bluetooth Communication module. This will improve the communication between the robots and will cover a greater range. We are really quite excited about this! |
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| Up to 2/4/04 | We have decided to implement a new light position determining algorithm based on trigonometry instead of a look-up table. |
| We have also decided to implement a moving light. In this case, once the mobile robot reaches the light source the light source will begin to move. |
| We have also decided to forgo IR communications in favor of the more powerful BlueTooth communication tool. |
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| Up to 2/28/04 | The mobile and stationary robot code is complete and is awaiting testing. |
| The prototype robots are complete. |
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| Up to 3/6/04 | The testing day was today. The robots correctly located and followed the spot when presented with acceptable input. |
| The BlueTooth modules connect and communicate with eachother. |
| The new robot designs were integrated faultlessly |
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