The following robot uses two-drive wheels and a ski or skid plate in front. Although you can easily build a four-wheel robot, I find that it can be harder to maneuver a four-wheel robot with a high degree of precision. Depending on the balance of a four-wheel robot, the non-driving rubber wheels will provide a large amount of friction that will make it difficult to turn accurately and in a predictable and reproducible manner. Using a skid in the front reduces the amount of friction. In later chapters, we will do a lot of optical line tracking with our robot and for this I want a robot with high maneuverability; thus, we will build a skid-bot. The following steps are meant for the Retail Edition of the kit, but you can easily find pieces to build a skid-bot with the Educational Edition. You will use the following parts from the Bill of Materials in the following screenshot to assemble the skid-bot. If you have the Education Edition, you may want to skip ahead...
Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3
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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3
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Overview of this book
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Engineering Notebook
Mechanical Design
Drive Train and Chassis
Sensors and Control
Interacting with EV3
Output from EV3
Advanced Programming
Advanced Programming and Control
Experiment Software and Data Logging
Other Programming Languages
Communication between Robots
Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy
Index
Customer Reviews