Line Following Contest

Eugene recently had a line-following contest at the annual asian celebration. Unfortunately, several of the would-be entries got locked up in the local high-school, so we only had 3 contestants. Myself, one of my kids from the robotics club I mentor, and cute little snail bot that is all analog.

I spent all week working on my PID algorithm, and almost gave up the day before. But it turns out the test mat I built at home was far more difficult than the mat at the contest. So I'm glad I actually went.

I only planned to enter the "beginner" contest, but since there were so few contestants, I went ahead and tried my bot on the "advanced" course. Turns out that they've never had a bot successfully complete the advanced course, which my bot did on it's 2nd try (which didn't get recorded).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• line
• follow
• NXT
• lego
• PID

[ghostinside]

In Eugene, OR, there is an asian festival at the fairgrounds in the winter... february I think. There is a local robotics group that organized this contest to be part of the celebration.

[Michael7295]

@huuua2 whats there not to understand, i can see the use of pid but the point i was trying to get across that the challenge is to follow a line...fairly simple. There is no other color than black or white, the challenge also there is no real main overall objective bar complete a lap of the track,,,

[huuua2]

@Michael7295 you dont understand then. btw *offense....

[huuua2]

@Michael7295 you dont understand then

[martnoort]

just love the snail

[Michael7295]

no offence but this competition looks increadbly easy

[RoboticOwl7]

First one is a fail................ XD

[Titanic1415sad]

im in robotics im building the rover its our frist 1 and this is my frist yr. in robotics i programmed it 2 times its fun im doing it in kokomo in diana

[volley749]

how did you do this?!

[thechickens123]

thanks :]

[DominoRobjuh]

congratulations!!!