As it turns out, the treads we ordered from the website were discontinued. As of this moment, the design to incorporate treads is scrapped. Our new idea is to shorten the length between the two wheels (two powered by one motor) in order to better distribute the weight of the robot.
After taking measurements of our robot, we learned that it exceeded the length limit it was allowed to be. As a result, we have decided to create a new design that will be more compact. We are also, at the same time, addressing the problem of the instability the wheels previously were experiencing.
We have also developed a general code that should program the robot to do what we want. Since we don't really have a functioning model yet, however, we can't officially test the code at this time. We plan that this new, revised design will be functioning by next week and will be ready to test our program on.
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