giovedì 4 febbraio 2016

Lecture 3

date: 4 February 2016 tutor: Alessandro Memo
  1. Lesson 3: Motors
    • previously on motors
  2. Lesson 4: Sensors (1): touch & color
    • Sensor methods, generalised approach, raw and percentage readings, operational modes
    • Touch sensor
    • Robot assembly to use the touch sensor to detect an obstacle
    • example: four walls (30 mins)
    • comment of a proposed solution of the previous example 13, the init section, variable initialization section, main section
    • Color sensor, operational modes, technology, LEDs, RGB.
    • Color sensor: reflected mode, different colored surfaces,
    • 2-levels Line follower, the threshold value
    • file management on PC and on brick, CSV file, example of subroutine, differences between function and subroutine, comment of the example 14, introduction of the flow-chart rappresentation
    • hints on 3-levels Line follower
Comments:Some students do very quickly the submitted examples and challenges. Time schedule respected.