1. What were some challenges your team faced when completing the maze?
2. How did you solve the problem?
3. What is an alternative way to complete the maze?
Comment on the Alien Maze activity. Include the following in your post:
1. What were some challenges your team faced when completing the maze? 2. How did you solve the problem? 3. What is an alternative way to complete the maze?
Team 3
3/12/2013 01:32:51 am
We had to set new timings every week because the battery always fell since other classes used it. We solved this by working quickly so that we finished before the end of the class. Other problems were that every week the inputs kept on swapping. People kept on casting shadows when we were testing the program so our results were sometimes inaccurate.
John
3/12/2013 01:52:51 am
Some problems that I had with the alien invasion were that I had to wait until the testing was done before I could tell where I could fix something or if a part of the problem is good. Kyra took this opportunity to label all of the parts of the program. This also helped to fix the parts of the program that were unreadable. One last problem was that the robot lost battery power each week because of the other robotics classes, but for this we just had to extend the times slightly. Another way to complete the maze would be to go straight forward, then use right turns to get around the aliens in the center of the maze. Then, I would just go forward into the box and complete the maze.
Kyra
3/12/2013 01:53:17 am
Some challenges I faced when testing the robot was that sometimes shadows were being casted and I would be unsure if the program my team's program really worked or not. The way I solved this was to make sure that there were no or less people by the maze. Another problem I faced was getting confused in our program, since it was extremely long. What I did was I labeled everything in the program. So if it was A and C forward, I would type "Goes forward." An alternate way to complete the maze is if I were to use the touch sensor or just time, which would have to be very accurate, and have a lot of hard work be put into it!
Farhan (team 3)
3/12/2013 01:54:32 am
In the maze race,we had to take the robot to the other side of the maze.We had many challenges. For instance, we found that the battery level was dying and was getting lower, leading to our robot messed up with the timing. it was getting slower, so we had to increase the time. Sometimes, we didn't find the program in robolab, so we had to search for it. Additionally, our group was a little unused to the speed of the robot. To solve the problem, we used the power level to decrease the power of the robot. Moreover, the robot sometimes did not sense the program and kept going strait. I think that we took the robot off the sensor before it got the program.
nicole
3/19/2013 01:46:21 am
Some problems we face were trying to find the right amount of time. To solve the problem we used trial and error and process of elimination. For example we took into account how long each part was to compare it to other parts of the alien maze. An alternative way to complete the maze is to go right around the aliens, because we went left.
Julia
3/19/2013 01:53:29 am
I had a fun time with the alien maze race ;) The hardest part was timing it right. I liked trying to avoid the 0 0
Jakub
3/19/2013 01:56:35 am
One of the challenges was that my robot kept the battery so low every time and then it had to download in a program that took 2-3 minutes. Well we couldent really solve it we had to wait and then after we waited it did it normally and we also had to replace the battery before we could do that. Also another solution to solve the maze is that we could use the look for dark instead of look for light and we could use the rotation sensor instead of the time sensor and then complete the program.
Anthony
3/19/2013 01:57:10 am
One of the challenges was that timings didn't work that well. It wasn't easy to find out the time. We changed the time to a time that was close enough to be reasonable. There is an alternative way to make the robot finish - to make it fly (LOL.) The true way is to go either going away from the aliens or going to the spaces between the aliens.
Victoria
3/19/2013 01:57:49 am
I liked the alien maze race. My group had some problems,but we solved them. One problem we had was finding thresh hole. To solve this problem, we just didn't use the light sensor. Also, the light sensor got us to much into the "alien". Another way we could have gotten past was actually spending more time on the light sensor.
keven[team1]
3/19/2013 02:09:48 am
One of the challenges that we faced during the Alien invasion was that the robot kept on getting messed up. By fixing it.
Matthew
3/19/2013 02:08:26 am
One of the challenges that I think our team faced was finding out how much time we needed to go forward and to turn. Also, we had trouble with time to use the light sensor. We figured this out by trying a bunch of different times. To figure out the light sensor problem we used it when the aliens were in the way. I think you should use the light sensor and timed turns.
Albar
3/19/2013 02:10:45 am
A challenge I faced in programing Bobster III is that he broke and we had a hard time fixing him and we also had to time him precisely on every turn to not kill any aliens like Joe II and Bob I. I didn't think there was an alternative way hence flying. Comments are closed.
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