Meet the robot field and design a strategy
It is important to create an effective strategy for your robot game to achieve many points. With a well-designed strategy, you can collect and deliver all the delivery tasks (example the diver), stay within the time limit and earn a lot of points!
Follow the steps below to develop an effective strategy!
Meet the mission models and play with them
First, look at all the tasks and their scores! Determine how many points you can get and in what combinations you can effectively solve each task!
Tip: Label the models with their scores so you can look at them while you work!
Active attachments: discover rotations and solve the problem with simple elements
With gears and axels you can build mechanisms that are rotated by the robot's motor! With these you can achieve movements that cannot be achieved with passive attachments!
Tip: If you can only place the gears far apart, use a chain!
Passive attachments: try to make it without rotation
Passive mechanisms are structures that solve tasks without the motors rotation. With them, you don't use your robot's motors and have more space for active mechanisms!
Tip: Try to build as many passive elements as possible for an efficient attachment!
📝 Task:
Design mechanisms for the mission models that can be used to solve them (even a lever is enough)!
Navigate to the models and plan the exact access
Plan navigation to the rounds so the robot can quickly reach the models and solve the tasks in a logical order!
Tip: Try to navigate with as few movements as possible, so you don't lose valuable time!
📝 Tasks:
Program a few sequences of movements with a simple robot to practice designing navigation!
Connect the models and document the rounds
Plan your rounds and document your finalized strategy so that your team members know every detail! Create a visual plan with a digital design program!
This way you can present your strategy digitally.
📝Task:
Draw one of your rounds using the design program and the knowledge you have acquired!
This is our robot strategy:
1. round: coral tree (we put it out)
2. round: western collecting
3. round: solving the western mission models
4. round: trident and shark (we put it out)
5. round: pulling out the ship
6. round: southern mission models
7. round: eastern collecting and mission models
Our Starting Points
- round
Robot position: West base, robot facing northeast
Robot alignment: the collectors two ends are touching the black lines
Attachment position: the arm is lifted up
2. round
Robot position: West base, robot facing north,
Robot alignment: the attachments left arm is next to the letter L in the CHALLENGE word
Attachment position: the attachments right arm is facing up
3. round
Robot position: West base, robot facing east,
Robot alignment: the robot is not next to the wall, from the right the second black line is under the left wheels middle
Attachment position: both of the arms are facing up
4. round
Robot position: West base, robot facing east,
Robot alignment: the robots back is alined with the west black line
Attachment position: both of the arms are lifted up
5. round
Robot position: East base, robot facing south,
Robot alignment: the right arm is next to the east black line
Attachment position: the left arm is facing the robot.
6. round
