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.