Team Seven/Final Paper

== Team 7 ==

Tips for future teams

1. Identify what you want and keep everything else simple.

2. Always have backup, specially for anything the staff provided.

3. Prepare and don't hesitate to fall back to Plan B.

Full Report

Identify the Need: This is IAP. Therefore, the team has decided that its objective is to have fun.

  1. Have fun
  2. Build a crazy robot
  3. [Maybe] score 1 point.

Thus everything we design revolves around these objectives.

Givens:

  A. Robot has to interact with balls of multiple color
  B. 3 Minutes Game
  C. There is an opponent working against you
  D. Environment is pseudo-random and artificially generated

From the givens and the objectives, we can extract some basic principles.

  1.  KISS (Keep It Simple, ...)
  2.