Week 13 – 11/30 to 12/4

This week we received our polycarbonate cutouts from the machine shop and started prepping them for the construction of our robot. We decided to change our routing/navigation algorithm from SLAM to Monte Carlo localization with a grid map. We decided that although it would be beneficial to design a robot that can map out any given environment, it will be much easier and faster to find the candle if we utilize the maps given in the rules. We also spent a large portion of this week working on our final presentation and final report.