| This little robot doesn't
actually vacuum your floors (in fact, I suggest vacuuming your
floors for real before running it or it will pick up a lot of
dust...), but it was inspired by robot house vacuums and
imitates some of their behavior. In
addition to the distance sensor that tries to spot walls and
other obstacles before hitting them, the mechanical design also
features a touch-sensitive bumper up front that can detect
objects that the distance sensor doesn't see. A bumper would
normally be made with one or two touch (pressure) sensors, but
the base Inventor kit doesn't include a touch sensor, so this
design uses a little trick to make one out of the color sensor.
Three different programs are provided, to
experiment and show some of the different strategies that real
robot vacuums use.
|
