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Project Preference

 * Mobile Robot Hallway Navigation, MakerBot PLA Material Characterization, Autonomous Power Wheel

Problem Statement
''In one or two sentences, describe the project that your group will be working on. Identify which one or two CDIO documents your group will create in this project cycle.''

Project Plan
Briefly describe your group's plan for the next 4 weeks, including the specific activities that will take place each week.

Week 1 Narrative
Decided to go with the word based coding in MATLab simulink, in order to code more complex programming. Thought up of ideas to use when navigating the hallway. Decided to use the motion sensor, compass sensor, dimensions of the hallway, and knowledge of displacement to create a code that would allow the robot to navigate the hallway.

Week 2 Narrative
This week, i got the schematic for the building that the robot will be travelling around. These schematic will be use to distance out where the robot will be travelling. Library first floor halls.dwg‎ (439 KB‎)

Week 3 Narrative
This week i finished gathering the measurements of the building to create a map for the robot to follow. (link to schematics)

The long hallways are 45.53 meters and the small hallways are 25.67 meters. Starting from the doorway the degrees each hallway face are 310NW, 220SW, 100E, and 348NE. code was written to make the robot travel down the first hallways straight, however the code would not upload onto the robot, even though it was verifying.

Week 4 Narrative
This week we tried many to code using the compass sensor, however it did not seem to work. The sensor seemed to change readings whenever it moved and ended up going in circles reading the same direction. We then decided to use an ultrasonic senor, however that did not work either. The readings seemed to change drastically for no reason. All in all, the project was really a failure and needs a lot of work.