2018 internal competition

Thrower robots software design and implementation

Task List(Not in order):

• Set up debug Mode

  • Monitor motor velocity/angle
  • Monitor camera input

• Design auto-mode algorithm

  • detect the position of robots
  • movement condition
  • Rack lifting mechanism
  • Ball throwing mechanism

• Code enhancement

  • reduce complexity

• Flow chart

  • draw a flow chart to show the sequence of robot movement

• Sensor testing

  • Camera

    • test performace at distance at 8cm
    • Image processing to black&white
    • Transfer the image to 2d array of 1 and 0

  • Ultrasonic

    • Test the distance and sensitivity on different surface
    • Write library to do I/O to the sensor

  • Line tracking

    • Tune the sensitivity (3/11/2018 update: 3~5cm for best sensitivity)
    • Write library to do I/O to the sensor (3/11/2018 update: Done and tested)

Map used in the competition