Project - Meeting 5

Date: 28-05-2012
Duration of activity: 3 hours
Group members participating: Jeppe

Goal

• Complete building the three robots so we can place them on the track and start programming.
• Extend the base track.

Plan

Complete building the two stacking robots, unpack the new NXT box and use that for the 2nd stacking robot.
Find another base plate, get the paint and paint the new base part white.

Results

Stefan had experimented with a robot with plastic conveyor belts (Shown below).

Unfortunately these belts did not have enough friction to be able to climb up the slide of the other robot. Thus we would either have to mount robber on the two slides or change the wheels of the robot.

After a bit of experimenting with a new design we came up with a new model that is using the rubber wheels:

The slide should make it possible for an other robot to drive on top of the robot as seen in the video below. The robots in the video are hard-coded, so the video only shows it possible to stack the robots. We now need to figure out a way to do it in general.

We got the 2nd base painted white and now we are ready to build the rest of the track:

Conclusion

The three robots are now completed. We have seen that the most vital part of the robots work, namely that they are able to stack on top of each other. We are now ready to start programming the robots for the track. 

Finally we are also ready for building the rest of the track.