MAI Cup 2021/2022

This week we managed to build in three colour sensors. With the help of those sensors, we can measure the intensity of the reflected light. The reflected light shows us the colour of the bottom of the maze. Those are the pieces of information we need so that our robot … Weiterlesen …

This week we managed to get the bot to follow a straight corridor. The code was reworked again. Now the bot can drive itself out of the maze. Take a look at our considerations: In order to make it a lot faster we had to buy a line sensor and … Weiterlesen …

Our robot is finally built. We now have an aluminium case, and the gear box is working like it is shown in the video. The only problem we encountered so far is that the centre of mass is not correctly placed so we must adjust it with some changes. In … Weiterlesen …

We want to give you a little insight into our work. Here you can see the cabling and the basic data flow of our robot. Take a look: We also did some additional test runs. There is still a lot of work to do:

This week we plugged in the ultrasonic sensors. It took quite some time to figure out the right ports. In order to program the ultrasonic sensors we reworked the code to make the sensors work. We also added comments so that everyone in our team can easily understand the code. … Weiterlesen …

There was a minor change of the ruleset. Thus the rulebook was updated to version 0.6. Take a look!

We finally have 3d printed the body of the robot. So, all that’s left to do since the code is done and the motors and sensors work is to assemble the gearbox that is also 3d printed and then we are ready to go into the testing phase! So, in … Weiterlesen …

This week we tried to program some code to measure the distance to the wall. To do that we need an ultrasonic sensor. One of our team members took the time and he installed the sensor, so the only thing left to do was to create a code, which had … Weiterlesen …

We ordered a lot of parts and started programming the code. We also started building the robot. We wired everything, built the outer shell, installed the motor controller and attached the tires. We have also programmed the robot so that it drives independently. Images and videos for proof incoming. Stay … Weiterlesen …

This is just a short update to what is currently going on. The first prototype of the robot is being 3d printed right now and we expect to work with it in a few days. We didn’t order the parts yet because none of our team members wants to order … Weiterlesen …