Research Paper: Abstract

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In this world today, technology is continually getting more advanced. With the help of artificial intelligence long pain-staking labor has been reduced to simple and easy tasks. For a long time people have dreaded performing undesirable tasks, and robotics have been used to satisfy their wants. However, many robotic prototypes are often expensive and difficult to program, so, as a result, something had to be done. The solution was the LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (RIS). This inexpensive and easy-to-use robotics system was invented five years ago by an MIT research lab. Having a variety of compilers, from simple click-and-drag based software to NQC, LEGO Mindstorms allows for different levels of programming. We devised an experiment involving three LEGO Mindstorm robots that could be used to help the daily lives of people all around the world.

In this project, we use three different robots to perform the task of moving three objects from Point A to Point B through communication. Each RCX using their infrared receivers transmits raw readings from their sensors to another RCX, which allows for easy cooperation. The objects that we will be transporting are ping-pong balls. Each ping-pong ball will be a different color (one white, one green, and one black) and will be sorted and placed in their correct corresponding bin. To achieve this goal we have created a robot that goes through a maze and gathers ping-pong balls, a robot that moves these ping-pong balls from one robot to another, and another robot that sorts the ping-pong balls into three cans. This paper includes the programming involved in the task and additional comments including each robots unique construction and design.