2018 internal competition

Thrower robots software design and implementation

Task List(Not in order):

Set up debug Mode
- Monitor motor velocity/angle
- Monitor camera input
Design auto-mode algorithm
- detect the position of robots
- movement condition
- Rack lifting mechanism
- Ball throwing mechanism
Code enhancement
- reduce complexity
Flow chart
- draw a flow chart to show the sequence of robot movement
Sensor testing
- Camera
  - test performace at distance at 8cm
  - Image processing to black&white
  - Transfer the image to 2d array of 1 and 0
- Ultrasonic
  - Test the distance and sensitivity on different surface
  - Write library to do I/O to the sensor
- Line tracking
  - Tune the sensitivity (3/11/2018 update: 3~5cm for best sensitivity)
  - Write library to do I/O to the sensor (3/11/2018 update: Done and tested)