Author Archives: khardey

This week I focused on creating the evolutionary crossover method. A crossover method needs to take information from one parent robot, information from another parent robot, and swap that information. This mutates our robots without losing information which is what … Continue reading →

This blog post is a brief reminder of our project and a summary of all the work that has been completed this summer. If you would like to read the latest progress since the last post, please skip to the … Continue reading →

Before we can start evolving new ‘brains’ for our robot, we need to translate our occam/Plumbing code into Java using JCSP. By using JCSP we are able to create a replica of our robot in the Simbad simulator. The first … Continue reading →

The vacation part of summer is over and now let’s program some more robots! Our first robot did great at the competition in April, but now that we’ve gotten our feet wet, it’s time to dive into the more complicated … Continue reading →

I have been pretty busy since my last blog post. For one, we now are working with the new 6-volt motors, these can work much better with our motor shield and will last longer with higher voltages applied to them. … Continue reading →

The first thing I did this week was play with the flame sensors in order to see what the values would be like. Sitting in a classroom with florescent lights had my sensor jumping to random numbers and I didn’t … Continue reading →

The Adafruit Motor Shield arrived in the mail last week and this week I built it. The shield allows one to control more than one motor at a time using h-bridges. This shield can allow up to 4 DC motors … Continue reading →

RC car robots are fine and all but we finally put together our idea for the final product. We decided to keep it pretty simple. Such as, rather than try to build our own h-bridges, we realized that an Arduino … Continue reading →

Before school let out for the winter break, Molly and I tried to make our robots move in more than one direction using an H-bridge. It appears that the H-bridges we have do not work very well for the Arduino … Continue reading →

Earlier this week I was able to get a lesson in the Plumbing language from Dr. Jadud. I had been having difficulties in translating my C program for my light sensitive RC car into a Plumbing program. I learned much … Continue reading →