Work in progress 4: Lego factory project v2.0

To start, sorry for the horrible quality of this video, it's a lot of noise, due to bad light conditions during the recording of this video...

Anyway, this video shows the building-robot placing it's first bricks autonomously. Unfortunately there are some mishaps half way when releasing the blue brick is place and the thing collapses as well as at the end when the last brick is added. This is due to some bad programming on my side related to the release mechanism that is placed inside the building-robot's head. When I have completed programming this robot, a new video will be recorded showing some more complex building.

The mission:
The entire factory will consist of a warehouse section with separate storage-bays for an assortment of in total 103 different parts (either different in colour or element-type) storing 16 elements of each type (this means that in total the warehouse will have over 1600 Lego pieces in the warehouse). Next to the warehouse there will be a robot taking care of receiving the parts from the warehouse-robot, which will receive the pieces, line them up for the building robot as well as rotating pieces if the model that is being build requires it to. The last robot is the building-robot, which will retrieve the pieces from the middle robot and then place it within the model being build.
All robots in the factory are controlled by 5 NXT programmable bricks all joined in some way by a master-slave setup, where one of the NXT's will communicate with a computer in order to receive instructions so it is able to determine the pieces to be retrieved from the warehouse and where to put them in the model being build.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Lego
• NXT
• factory
• technic
• automation
• automated
• mindstorms

[TheSnowBly]

cool, maar ik vraag me af hoe mensen aan het geld komen voor zoo veel lego :P

[DrywFiltiarn]

@TheSnowBly, kwestie van zorgen dat je een goede baan hebt, en waar je het voordelig vandaan kunt halen ;)

[TheGreatSteve]

Thats the hardest part right their IMO. You need something to hold down the Lego as you withdraw. I'm most impressed by the accurate register of the parts.

[DrywFiltiarn]

@TheGreatSteve, the holding down is not an issue, when you look at the next video, you will see I have it solved. The mechanism to release the bricks was wrongly programmed in this video causing things to fail.

[TheSnowBly]

@DrywFiltiarn ok, want ben zelf pas 13 :P

[legoboy1234567892]

why the plate is following?

[G1McK]

awesome :p