Wednesday 30 May 2018

Robotics - Robotics and Progaraming

In my robotics and programming class I am learning how to use my programming knowledge to design a mars lander.

The design process is a series of steps used to come up with a solution for a problem. Most of the time the solution involves designing a product that meets a certain criteria. We have designed and sketched what we would like our robots to look like. We researched all about mars landers to find the information we needed to design our robots.  Over the weeks we have tested all three of the robots we will be using. We have created a prototype of what we want our robot to look like. My group is using a sphero. The cage that will sit over our sphero will have wheels to help it function properly. The design process is a long hard process that is required for most things you use.
The terrain in mars is rocky, with volcano's, canons and craters all over it. Mars temperature is something below minus 80 Fahrenheit. The freezing cold would affect my mars my design by freezing it. If it was frozen the cameras would freeze and you wouldn't be able to take any photos or videos. It could also freeze all of the mechanical things inside of it wich would break it and stop it from moving. I am going to design my mars lander to be able to move over rocky, sandy ground. It will have cameras that can not be frozen. It will be built out of materials that can not freeze so that all of the mechanical things on the inside will not break and continue to work smoothly.
We have been learning how to control our mars lander robots online. We have been maneuvering the mars lander over mars terrain. We moved it back and forth and turned the mars lander around to navigate over the terrain. We have also been looking at all the different cameras to get all sorts of angles. I personally like using the mars lander app as it develops new skills.
Our robot will navigate around on mars because of its structure. It has four sturdy wheels and a solid structure that will get it through all of mars’s terrain.  

    
 

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