Features of our strategy
- We had a proven winning strategy where we would obtain the minimum
number of points required to win,
plus a tiebreaker. We wanted to collect two small
and two large balls, giving us 10 points. Then we wanted
to raise the flag, thereby doubling our
score and giving us the tiebreaker. With this, the most any other team
could score was 20 points, and since we would have
the tiebreaker, we'd win.
- The way we wanted to accomplish this was by using four distance
sensors on each side of the robot so that
we would know exactly where we were on the game
board at all times. Then, all we had to do was program
the locations of the balls we wanted to
pick up, the goal, and the flag box into the HappyBoard and direct the
bot to go to those
places.
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In addition, we wanted to have a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)
system on the robot, but this never got built. The
idea was to have
two distance sensors mounted on top of a servo that could rotate around
and locate balls
in the area so we could drive to them.
Unfortunately, we ran out of time and couldn't implement
this, nor
were the distance sensors resolute enough to be able to enable this
feature in our code.