Project 4 - Exploring New Environments
In this assignment, the robot would be placed in a "warehouse" and had to circumnavigate the rooms within, generating a binary map of "wall" or "free space" which was continuously updated to a wireless host. The point of this search was to locate any "fires" represented by a bright light bulb. The biggest challenge of this arena was a 20 degree incline which the robot must be able to climb in order to explore the upper level room. A secondary goal of this project of which the point was not made entirely clear until the final assignment was the ability to pick up (or at least move) a can. Two new robots were created to accomplish these goals, each more capable than the previous.
In this assignment, the robot would be placed in a "warehouse" and had to circumnavigate the rooms within, generating a binary map of "wall" or "free space" which was continuously updated to a wireless host. The point of this search was to locate any "fires" represented by a bright light bulb. The biggest challenge of this arena was a 20 degree incline which the robot must be able to climb in order to explore the upper level room. A secondary goal of this project of which the point was not made entirely clear until the final assignment was the ability to pick up (or at least move) a can. Two new robots were created to accomplish these goals, each more capable than the previous.