Go, go for the robot construction!
Tibi
What's been lately? Have you started working for the robot? We let our
faculty courses for a while and started to think about the algorithm
and robot structure.
We have some doubts regarding the power of a vacuum to suck those
pierced balls, as reffered (proposed) in the official rules document.
Have you tried it out? I believe it would be helpful to communicate on
the robot construction and strategy ideas theme, as you proposed when
creating this group.
I look forward to hear from you,
Tibi and Danuta
Matti Lindroth
We are not actually building a robot but another team is and we are
supporting them the best we can.
I don't think we have tried any vacuuming yet and I don't know id that's
the road we are going to go.
I personally believe that some sort of mechanical collector might work
better (at least on power / efficiency ratio). Though it might need a
good camera vision.
At the moment the team is learning to program atmel- microcontrollers
and they are modeling the robot. I think they are also experimenting the
navigation system.
If you want I can give you our last years robots control codes. By
control codes I mean the finite state machine (see wikipedia for more
info) and the parsers for dia xml -> roboScript -> fsm robot control. I
don't know if they are of any help to you.
There are also modules for transitions, transition conditions and the
main fsm thing...
-Matti
Matti Lindroth
Tibi
I feel very happy about sharing your control codes with us (botASSA).
I remember I was pretty amazed from the very beginning of your
presentation... We decided to implement a finite state machine by
ourselves this year because it's important being able to easily change
your robot strategy anytime you want. Now, I believe we'll only test
and evolve your fsm. I took a look and it's well written, structured
and logical. In this weekend I'll deal with it in detail :)
Thank you once again!
We do have two new team members on programming and we were wondering
what would be the best strategy to help them learn programming atmel
microcontrollers. For now we gave them the link to avrtutor.com site.
Can you guys help us on this?
We would share our code with you but then this would be just for
laughing because there are lots of interrogations and artifices
inserted in our negligent code to help us understand why our machine
most of the time didn't work the way we wanted; the reason was
actually the existence of too many improvisations in our electronics
and mechanics and lack of precision due to the lack of founds. We hope
this year we'll do better though, we are doing our best to find
sponsors, buy a server of our own, build our site (we will use our own
still in development project management web-based system for this -
Cadmio; if you feel interested, tell us; the code is written in Ruby),
install git (bazaar), mediawiki (+svn), mailman and all the stuff that
can help us do a better job in our organization (ASSA) and
particularly inside our Eurobot team (botASSA).
Tibi