Tuesday, January 31, 2012

True Autonomous Self-Awareness: Jan 30 meeting


Milestone for VRC1414: Sensor package fully functional in autonomous, thus Kwelaha becomes somewhat self-aware for the first time ever which is a huge leap forward for our team.

Here is our first video footage (sorry for the bad light/grainy footage) of Kwelaha exhibiting self-aware behaviors. Below that is a photo of the sensor package for a better idea of what we're doing - simple and effective.  Three bumper switches in rear of robot allow for push button on the fly selection of subroutines, encoder on arm joint measures relative arm position, and one bumper switch in front of robot detects the edge of 30" goals. No more voltage dependence in autonomous mode!



We're looking forward to more practice and February competition.

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