Monday, November 24, 2008

Ending of obstacle challenge 19/11

As what I've predicted, friction of the carpet has been the most borthersom obstacle. However, after dozens of experiments and modification of the robot, we managed to overcome the friction more often; it didn't have a certain pattern all the time, but it just changed time to time. 
When we began the challenge, for the stability of the robot, we tried to add one more wheel at the each side, which ended up with an unidentified problem; we took them out again. By adding some beams at the sides of the wheels, the robot could've had more stability. After it, other obstacles were smoothly done.
While finishing the obstacle challenge, I had a feeling of accomplishment as a result of such a hard mission. I'm delighted to have had the challenge as it is a great help for future projects and it gave me some lessons about how to build a robot and how to cooperate.

1 comment:

l.clark said...

Im finally relieved that we got this challenge over with...dealing with the friction and adding all of those modifications really was too much of a hassle...
If we ever have to do something like this again on carpet...I think that we should resort to treads with gear trains speeding them up...