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I am sure by now you’re probably very curious to see the whole thing actually working.
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The team members (in no particular order): Michael Schmalz, Timon Brändli, Manuel Dangel, Tamara Weissenbach and Melanie Steiner. It looks like a very complicated puzzle, but then the Swiss are well known for their precision machinery. They combined the NXT motors and standard servos with other materials. Robotics has the power to change and improve our lives in ways we have never imagined. As you can see, some of the materials are “buried” underneath a ledge, so a simple pick-up system does not work.Ī detailed rendered CAD picture of the system. Ingenia not only acts as a servo drive supplier but also as a design partner that will help you integrate and design extremely reliable servo drives that seamlessly fit form and function at the right cost and time. Here are some pictures of their awesome system:Ī sideways view of the terrain and the cable cart system. At this point, our team would like to express our gratitude to Xander, who kindly helped us with a special and very essential function in the Software…
#ROBOTC SERVO DRIVER#
Steering the Servos was only possible with the 3rd Party Driver Suite programmed by Xander Soldaat.
#ROBOTC SERVO PS3#
We used a PS3 Controller to steer our system. Servo 1 moves the shovel, Servo 2 the rack, so we could change the altitude of the wiper. Motor B changes the altitude of the frame-work and Motor C moves the Cogwheel in the intake mechanism. We used 3 NXT Motors and 3 Servos to achieve the movement. To move the system along it, we installed a rope which pulls it in the desired direction. To reach the right and left side of the terrain, we used a rail as guideway. Furthermore a frame-work is very stable and light at the same time due to it’s design. The advantages are: achieving a long range and at the same time being able to shrink drastically so we could place it in the valley station. To change the altitude of it, we chose a frame-work. This lead us to a “shovel and wiper” system. Our team decided to approach this task with a multifunctional intake mechanism, which is able to gather every kind of the materials and at the same time represents the vessel to transport them. Additionally, the system had to weigh less than 3.5 kilos and had to be installable in 2 minutes! Said Melanie: Materials were placed in hard-to-get-to places so they had to develop a mechanism that allowed them to get to these. The task was to make a system that could transport as much “building materials” to the top of a simulated mountain side. What was she making? It turned out she is one of the members of a small group of students in Switzerland who were taking part in a contest. Locating logical errors – especially when logic in program is complex Inconsistency of motor distances: Solve with encoders and sensors Motors burning out: If nothing is moving, don’t try to move the motor more! Messy / Hard to change code: Think of organization from the beginning.When Melanie Steiner contacted me some time ago with a question about using joystick control in combination with the Mindsensors NXTServo controller, I got curious. Comments: // and /* Team 5220 Roboknights Store values used in multiple places in variables/constants that can easily be changed.
#ROBOTC SERVO CODE#
code to move motors a certain distance belongs in a function Add spacing, line breaks and indentation so you can read the code. Style and Organization Standard Casing: Capital word-breaks for tasks, Ĭamel case for functions and variables Name your variables sensibly! Make code re-usable, e.g. Forgetting one bracket might lead to a boatload of errors in other places! Logical Not noticed by compiler, kind of like speaking correct grammar, but conveying the wrong meaning, e.g. Errors: The bane of all programming: Compiler The compiler helps point out errors, yet it can be misleading. Break, continue, and return: Escaping fromĬompiling and Errors Compiling: turns RobotC code into machineĬode. Blocks, compound statements, curly brackets statement for () statement Lot of statements are pre-defined for you: if you think there should be a statement to do something, there probably is. Statements can have parameters Statements are separated by semicolons. RobotC Syntax (“Grammar”) The statement: Each statement tells the program to do Add robot under “Bluetooth devices” on computer Go to “Communication Link Setup” in RobotC Select Robot and connect
#ROBOTC SERVO SOFTWARE#
Software Setup Pragmas – EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Connecting the robot by Bluetooth Turn on Bluetooth on computer and robot Style, organization Top 5 problems Team 5220 Roboknights Programming with RobotC Grammar/Syntax Basic Statements Outline Getting Started Hardware Setup/Wiring Software Setup/Pragmas