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Re: Can game - can you handle carpeting?
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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:17:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote:
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> > PS - My robot can successfully measure the volume of a can ;) :tease:
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> ...and I fail. It doesn't work in bright light. I programmed it late at night
> and it works great. The differential between the light source at night is good
> (about 10 counts). But in the day it is too close, and it either gets false
> readings or misses. I guess since I have to scrap this, I can show you guys
> what I had done.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9BMn1XNds
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> The robot is a gantry frame that would have driven around until a can got
> through the frame. It looks for the leading edge, then trailing edge of the
> can, then moves back to the halfway point. It then rotates 90 degrees, does the
> same thing, so it's centred. This measures the area of the base. The light
> sensor can move up and down (along with the light source on the opposite side).
> So, once the can is centred (the x and y values are multipled to get the area of
> the base), the sensor would move up and find the height - getting the volume.
> While the sensor moves up, a frame around the outside (not finished) would have
> moved down. This "captures" the can.
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> As the game goes on, a "risk" slope would go along; idea being that at the
> beginning of the game, the robot can afford to be picky ("who will ask me to the
> prom? I hope the quarterback of the footaball team!"). As the 3 minutes
> progress, the robot will accept a lesser and lesser can to settle for squatting
> on ("I guess if Ryan from the Debate Club asked me, I'd say yes"). Within the
> last 30 seconds, anything would be accepted, no measuring at all.
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> -Iain
First off - Iian, Absoutly amazing, Talk about thinking outside of the box (or
can :) )
Secondly:
If anyone has a scale to measure the weight of the cans, can you please bring
it, Also additional cans would be great as well...
See you tomorrow.
Jeff VW
Who has a bot assembled, and is starting the coding...
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