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Team VS6: Meet Alfred


Sensors


Our robot uses two carefully-chosen sensors: the touch and the light sensor.

Light sensor

The light sensor is on the side to see the different colors of the medicine bottles.

Color sensor

We used a color sensor on the bottom to find the colors on the field mat, particularly for the green and black lines.

Touch Sensor

We put the touch sensor on the back so Alfred would know when he was going into a wall; backing into a wall is a useful  method of ensuring Alfred stays on its' path.


General characteristics


Alfred is a very versatile robot with a lot of interesting characteristics; he's tall and skinny, with the NXT mounted on top.

These slides explain why.

Size

Alfred is skinny so it can fit through small spaces.
This results in him being quite tall; however, by distributing the weight carefully, he is quite stable.

NXT

We put the NXT intelligent brick on the top so it we can easily access to do tasks fast.

We noticed that one major disadvantage of other robots was their difficulty in accessing the NXT.

Alfred's movement

Alfred is a very unique robot, especially in terms of how it moves. It has a ball in the back for frictionless turning, as well as two large wheels for quick movement.

Two drive motors

We have two different motors - one for each wheel, so it can turn, of course.

FRONT (Attachment) MOTOR

We put our last motor on the front to have reachers and 
grabbers. The front motor is centered so the robot isn't side-heavy, which would make more likely to tip over.  

Ball In the Back

This addition to our robot allows turning to be easy.
This lets the robot turn with as little friction as possible.

The front wheels

We picked our wheels - the largest Lego wheels we could find - for the right tradeoff between speed and control.

The end

Thank you for watching our presentation!  

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By Owen Versteeg

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