Project Conclusion

Date: 28-06-2012

Duration of activity: 3 hours

Attendants: Jeppe, Thomas & Stefan

Goal

• Dismantle robots
• Go through blog entries and review the text
• Conclusion of the project.

Plan

In this entry we will discuss the project period and the result of the project.
Further we will dismantling the robots and distribute the lego over the boxes.

Conclusion

We have a success rate of about three out of four runs. This is pretty good, considering the complexity of having multiple robots working together. The basic structure of the the code was very simple. We went for a strategy where we could specify each behavior in a class and just branch between activating and deactivating the various  behaviors on the run. There is no doubt that the success was due to the stable environment the robots was navigating in. We decided from the beginning that everything should be kept as simple as possible since our effort would be in making the robots stack on each other and communicate.

On the way we discussed if the track could be used as a WRO challenge. If it would be allowed in WRO to use more than just one NXT it would be a good challenge for WRO. Even if only one robot is allowed in WRO, it would still be a good track since it contains many different aspects. Thus points could be given for the different tasks on the track: 1) Having two robots climb on each other, 2) having three robots climb each other, 3) have the robots grab the object on the bridge, 4) have the robots follow the line to the basket, 5) delivering the object in the basket. All of these aspects would be interesting for the WRO participants to explore. Ie. a winning robot might not need to complete all the sub goals.