Monday, November 10, 2008

Building Strategies - Chapter 6

In our robot, we are going to use a type of connection called the parallel linkage. This will enable us to use less material than our current construction, while still maintaining a stable built. Here is an example that shows parallel linkage of a robot:

In addition, the robot is built so that the wheel is as close as possible to its supporting beam and the NXT is placed in the middle to balance the weight on the supporting beam:

Do note that this robot built is an example of a modular assembly.

In terms of programming, we did really well in class today as we programmed the majority of the functions needed for the robot to navigate through the maze. All we are lacking in the program right now is the function to detect the can and avoid it. I will program it into the robot using motor block and sensor block by next class. After that, the robot will be good to go in terms of test running it.

2 comments:

Christoffer Dahlen said...

it is a god explenation that goes through most of the standard condruction bases. It is good that you have an example of parralel linkage that shows that it increases the stability of the robot.

Navid said...

Great picture on parallel linkage... and knowing the result I should congrat you for your cool stuff-detector robot!