Casey and Chris' Egg Hunt Strategy

Goal: To program the robot to drive around on the table, collect the appropriate color balls, and deposit them in the goal.

Plan:

1. Have the robot locate the right color egg.

    Using the color of the egg, and the output of external sensors to determine if it is the right color.

2. Lift up the egg.

    Using a servo motor to drive a clamp like structure to pick up the egg.

3. Once the egg is located, drive to the basket and drop in the egg.

   Using external light sensors to locate the basket surrounded by christmas lights.

4. Repeat

    Two minute Timer

use the photoresistors to distinguish the color, we could try to use the wall-following sensors to find the eggs. once we have an egg at the front of the robot we could have a clamp to hold it there (using a servo), then use light sensing program to bring it to the goal

Task	Description	Who	Estimated Completion Date	Actual Completion Date	Actually Who
Search Pattern	drive around (using wimp mode etc)	Casey	Jan 9	Jan 9	Casey
Find Egg	distance sensors	Casey	Jan 9	Jan 9	Casey
Grab and identify egg	Use servo motor to operate clamp and subsequently, use external light sensors to distinguish egg color	Chris	Jan 9	Jan 9	Chris
2 minute timer	Write code to have the loop go for two minutes	Casey	Jan 11	Jan 11	Chris 50%, Casey 50%
Use lab 5 to go to basket	photoresistor sensors	Chris	Jan 11	Jan 11	Chris
Drop egg in basket	servo motor	Casey	Jan 13	Jan 13	Casey 50%, Chris 50%
Build robot hardware	Build whatever is needed for whatever sub-tasks within the overall code (robot arm/clamp and mount for servo/sensors)	Chris and Casey	Jan 23	???	Casey 50%, Chris 50%

Results:

As of now, we have not gotten the egg hunt program to fully work. We are currently in the process of getting it to do so. Various complications have arisen whilst trying to integrate the two portions of code from the practical exam, one of which being resetting drive direct values due to orientation of sensors and resetting port numbers and such due to the use of a single sensor port in more than one portion of code (wanting to use the distance sensor, ending up using the photoresistor sensor).

Undecided

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