Team Two/Journal

17 Jan:

Finish map by the end of today (it currently parses the map format, but still needs to process it). Get motion planning algorithm to work before the mock competition.

18 Jan:

Finish CAD

19 Jan:

Lasercut all remaining parts.

Further experiment with belt lifter—get in semi-working state for mock competition

20 Jan:

Mock competition.

24 Jan:

Decided to switch strategy plans due to time constraints.

Robot will follow walls, search for blocks with the camera, and switch to picking up blocks when it sees them. Afterwards, it will return to following walls. Localization will be postponed and implemented only if we have time. At the end of the game, the robot will simply drop its two stacks both in the same zone and drive away, aiming to score at least one stack and receive the drive-away bonus.

25 Jan:

Wrote a draft of wall-following code and did some preliminary tests.

26 Jan:

Mock competition #2.

27 Jan:

28 Jan:

29 Jan:

30 Jan:

Final competition