10.22.2012

Like a moth to the flame...

Casey finished coding for our IR (infrared) sensor on the robot. Now, as you will see, Sonic will circle while searching for the IR beacon and then drive and follow the beacon once it is found.



Sonic will use this IR sensor to identify the column with the IR beacon in the challenge. Now we have to finish and code our arm design so that Sonic can place the ring on the correct column without any human control; i.e. autonomously.

Invisible Sun

This picture shows the beacon and IR light that Sonic follows while in autonomous. This light is invisible to the human eye, but electronic cameras, such as the one that took this picture, and electronic sensors can see and follow this light.


Bodybuilding

Nik is working on the Solidworks model of our arm for Sonic. Once we have our model, we can build the arm and test it out.