During a scholar period, the class was split into 5 groups, with a common goal, realize a tiny robot that is going to help the RICA during an exploration.
Those robots are divided in two group, a Master role (stay at a constant distance from the RICA robot, inclinations too) or in Slave Mode (follow the Master Robot, in speed, orientation, and constant distance). Each group had to build a robot able to perform and switch between those two mode. /work on the 2 mode. A written report, an oral presentation and functionals tests must be delivered at the end.
In the beginning, we received a mechanical foundation, motors, an electronic board and a box with various captors and wires. We worked on the programming of the robot on ARDUINO IDE,. Principal functions have been the motors piloting, captors’ acquisition, detection of the role at the ignition. A test series was created to make the identification and the qualification of all the captors available in the box. Another part of this project is the Mechanical part, the robot needed armor, and a way to fix the captor securely. The armor was designed with the software CATIA V5 and printed in PLA with a 3D Printer.
The difficulties met were the quality/precision of the captor, a bad impression of all box. Moreover, the coordination on the team was really important, the task’s repartition too.
To conclude this step of the RICA story, all the presentation was made on a successive way with a demonstration of each group and a global meeting with all the robots to try the different modes and reactions in a “real” test.
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