Robot+Challenge

How did you work it out?

A quick overview on how Rachel and I completed the challenge. In task one we figured out the rotations that it took the robot to move 50 cm forward. With that information we opened up a spreadsheet and did the calculations to find out how many rotations the robot needs to move 1cm. After that it was easy because we used the formula to calculated the amount of rotations of any given distance. This was also based that the speed at which the robot moved forward was constant. This is a screenshot of our working out. In cell D7 and E7 was our practice run. As you can see in cell E8 is the result of the calculations based on the calculations we did in cell E6. After we found the rotations we trialled it and thought that it wasn't exact so we fiddled around with the number or rotations and Rachel used her palm to calculate an approximate distance.

This is a screenshot of the programming that made our group (8) win!