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This website illustrates a system of two robots that will be constructed for the CS148 final project. The concept for the two robots is based loosely on the feeding behavior of bees and has been dubbed "Master-Blaster" after the characters that ran the methane plant at Bartertown in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The Master robot will originate at a "nest" and find a path to a light-emitting coffee cup using a line on the floor. It will then retrace its path back to the nest, where it will communicate the path that it discovered to the Blaster robot. After receiving the information from Master, Blaster will follow designated path, find the coffee cup using its short-range sensors, pick up the cup, and return to the nest.
The design of the robots will combine a several ideas introduced in the CS148 class with a number of new concepts, such as path encoding and backtracking, path communication, and object acquisition (through hand-eye coordination) and transportation. The project concept is described in greater detail in the project proposal:
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