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What is the problem? Thave to create a robot that is able to stay in the rink the longest Explore/Research Design Design 1: Speed For my first design | will be using the speed racer bot. | would have to use the light sensor so my robot would follow the line around the rink. | would also put a ultrasonic sensor on the side of my robot. Therefore, when another robot comes close to mine it would then turn 90 degrees and ram into the other robot at full speed until it finds the line again. If use this method with super speed | believe, it should be very difficult for bigger robots to knock me out. Design 2: Torque For this design | would use power rather than speed. Although it would be a two wheel design rather than a four wheel one. | would add a light sensor so that when the sensor found the outskirts of the rink it would immediately tum around. | would also add pieces that would add more force to pushing my competitors out of the rink. | would also have to add a ultrasonic sensor so that my robot would be able to find its competitor. Design 3: Torque For my final design | would make a four wheel robot that has a fork lif. It would use power rather than speed and try to lift my peers robots of the table. Similarly to my first two designs, this robot would have the same sensors such as: the light and ultrasonic sensors/ Tryitout [Testing/implementation] Make it Better [Redesign] I'm doing the first design of the three, From running my first test | figured out that speed does not work because the light sensor is not able to read the white line fast enough to stop. Thad to use a small: medium gear ratio because small:big didn't work on a robet initially made for speed. ost my first match to Reagan. | learned that If | want to win | must attack first. So | decided to set my ultrasonic sensor to 10 inches rather than 8 to make sure I make the first move. I won my second match against Alek. Although | did win by default my program seemed to be working well. Alex's robot eventually ran out of the rink. Host my third match to Daniel. My program worked well but it was simply overpowered by daniels bigger and more equipped robot. | can fix this by instead using small:big gear ratio rather than smalkmedium to gain more torque. For my second design | decided to make a design similar to that of design 3. It has more Power than my first design because instead of 2 wheel drive it is 4. Also the gear ratio is now ‘small:big. This program works similarly to that of the first. The light sensor keeps it inside the role. But, when the ultrasonic sensor detects an object in its path it begins to lift the forkiift in front of the NXT. | also added a touch sensor in the back so that when my robot is being attacked from behind it would move back one rotation to get out of the way and then counter. In my first match | played Daniel and | lost. | was not in class that day but from what ive heard my program was not working the way I wanted it to. In my second match | beat Isaiah as his program did not work at all. | was also not in class on this day. I beat Alex in my third match. | believe his robot disqualified itself. I then lost to Reagan. At this point I realized that | should try something like the design of the first robot | made. So | decided to put the ultrasonic sensor to the side of the robot rather than in the front, Ireached the seri finals and lost to Jack. My program worked well yet, my robot was very long and therefore was an easy target.

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