Links to Victory!!

And if you do not understand PID controllers go to:

PID for Lego NXT

and the intructions:

http://www.hitechnic.com/models

PID Controllers are the next best thing!!

To help robotics to become less jerky and smooth just as if a human being was doing it,PID controllers must be used.How I found this out was I saw the HiTechic IRRC Car and how that they used a PID controller that they built in NXT-G and how when it moved it moved like a real car. So just to prove to myself that this would work I built the HiTechnic IRRC Car and switch the IR Receiver with the compass sensor to benefit D.R.i.V.e.And a few tweaks allowed me to make it work. I plan to change D.R.i.V.e.'s steering to something like the one on the HiTechnic IRRC Car which is using Ackerman steering. The links of how this was done,progress and documents will be posted in the next post.

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008

Hello.Lately, I been experiencing a major problem.How Do I Get Any Code Into MRDS(Visual Programming Language). If anyone has any solution please post it in the comments. It would be very appreciated if you did. Other than that MRDS has been very good and easy to use.

What else is there?

The Process

• First the google maps API is downloaded as a XML
• Then formulas converts it into excel 
• Then a macros downloads each bearing value and distance value into txt files for each waypoint
• NeXT Tools downloads the txt files into the brick
• Then the file access block reads the values and puts it into a variable

What I'm doing now?

• Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008,there are two ways of achieving our objective without any human interference.Which is:1)Using a simulated GPS Sensor to get lat and long and navigate. Or 2)Using the same method above but this time only using MRDS.
• So to accomplish either one,I am watching tutorials and researching to get myself familiarised with MRDS.                                                                                                      

Mission:2/3 ... completed. Must terminate 1/3 & 3/3, then Mission Complete...

As the title says 2/3 of the Step is complete.Now I shall tell you how I made my leg move up 2/3 of the way. 1/3 of the way was I first tried the file on nxtasy known as gps_master_1_04 which kept showing error then I researched more and found a file known as GPS.rbt from thenxtstep which gave me Denmark
Finally, I thought I should try the new version of gps_master which is gps_master_3 but that is also reporting an error.So if anyone has a different solution please put it in the comments section.2/3 was logical thinking that I thought of was that it could navigate itself by being perfect by giving every thousandth decimal the compass sensor could tell the direction to that coordinate and move what ever is necessary.

BrixCC and The Day of Walking Up the Step

The day had come to walk up the STEP!!!Please remain in a calm order, this will be over soon.This day has only 1/3 categories. To accomplish walking up the STEP without falling,the 1/3 of the step and will fall if not executed properly.I downloaded a nxc file from a post on nxtasy.org called GPS and NXT which is a file that a GPS that is paired bluetoothly to the NXT gives lat and long which is displayed on a NXT Screen.For the 2/3 of the STEP is giving these coordinates to the compass sensor and using that to transport/navigate itself. The 3/3 is getting the light sensor to detect the curb line to center itself on a lane,the Ultrasonic Sensor to detect objects and stop or horn and to get the touch sensors working as bumpers and the Acceleration sensor to detect incline and adjust speed.