THE ABILITIES OF THE ROBOT AND THE ROUND UP

At the moment we stopped, the robot had been able to go through all of the movement checkpoints: straight line movement, turns, figure 8. It was also perfectly able to understand when it was crossing a line, using its sensors. This permitted it to adjust its position, if it was not perpendicular to the line it was approaching. It was also able to make turns using both motors, reducing the risk of it accidentally crossing a line.

The next steps in improving it were going to be to finish the logic, so that it could have reliably been able to solve the puzzle. This would have come down to understand a way to make it store the signals, combine them and use them to move on the board. Another issue would have been to make it understand the limits of the board so that it would not have gone outside of it. Another step would have been to make it understand how to get back home safely, although this step can be done a lot of different ways, but we just did not get far enough.

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In terms of logic, when we stopped working the robot was able to maneuver through the maze, taking in the input signals, and able to record those signals. It was not yet able to recognize when there was a certain pattern of signals that translated to a confirmed spot of either the wumpus, a hole, or the gold. The robot was also not able to yet return once the gold was gotten. I believe at the stage we were the robot could find and confirm the gold and get to it while using the signals it had received to determine which portions of the grid were safe for travel.

The next step to improving and finishing the robot would have been to implementing the ability for it to take the signals it had received and their placement on the board, due to the robots location, and confirm the location of pits, the wumpus, and the gold. We would have also tested the robot more on different scenarios to ensure it had worked. If it had bugs, we would have sorted them out and fixed them.

The round-up was called off, because of technical issues that happened during the work weeks. No group has indeed been able to finish the entirety of the code, but just parts of it: some groups had finished the logic, but struggled with movement, while others, like us, struggled with logic, but had the movement ready.