13th Post: 10/28/13

Cube World (Goals for the Week):

We have two new assignments that are due by next Friday. We have to program our robot to autonomously place four cubes on designated areas. The cubes can be placed on the robot by hand but everything else has to be programmed into the robot beforehand. This task will require a lot of trial and error. We will have 30 seconds to complete this. The other challenge we have to do is control the robot to pick up the a minimum of four cubes and place each one is a separate box. For this challenge we need at least one cube in each box, but having more than one may result in extra credit. We will be given one minute to do this.  By the end of this week we hope to have made progress on the autonomous program and create an end effector for this particular challenge.

Current Robot Status

The cubes and basket for this challenge side by side.

Setup of Challenge