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Your key phrase is “using school equipment” and asking “the schools IT folks” for items does not work for us. Downingtown Area Robotics is not an official school club, there are not any teachers involved in an official capacity in either the 105 roboteer VEX group, or the 35 roboteer FRC group. We are all parents of roboteers or in the case of Steve and I, deranged believers in competition robotics being good for students (we don’t have roboteers in the program) .

We rent the school, we rent the custodial services. So there isn’t school equipment to use. When the VEX year started we had 50 roboteers and 8 robots, with plans to buy netbooks. When the school year started we had an influx of 50 more roboteers (105 total) and decided to field 7 more robots than buy computers. If we had $2000 we would buy netbooks for the roboteers to program on.

After successfully creating a project in VEXcode V5 to move the arm mounted on the VEX V5 Workcell, it is time to examine things closer and relate them to the industrial robots used in manufacturing. In this reading we will explore the following topics: a manufacturing robot’s controller, operating systems, motion control, and robot dynamics.

VEX IQ is an educational robotics system which is quite new. It was launched in October 2013, about at the same time as the EV3. The system includes plastic elements, metal axles, gears, wheels, treads, servo motors, sensors, and the VEX IQ brain, a microcomputer with 12 I/O ports and backlit display. The VEX IQ smart motors have a very precise PID loop controller on board. For a very good review of the VEX IQ system, check out this post at Bot Bench.

The VEX IQ brain is programmed using ROBOTC and controls the movements of the robot and reads the sensors, while the cube is scanned and solved by a custom Android app running on a Samsung Galaxy SL. I am using the same app for my latest LEGO MINDSTORMS Rubik’s cube solver robots as well.

The biggest challenge in realizing this project was making the VEX IQ system communicate with an Android app. The VEX IQ brain is not Bluetooth enabled, so I came up with the following work-around. The robot can just send acknowledgements to the app by waving a piece in front of the phone proximity sensor. The phone, in return, must send the sequence of the solving moves back to the robot. So I implemented a synchronous 2-bit base-6 parallel communication channel flashing colors on the screen of the smartphone and reading them using the VEX IQ color sensors. This way of communication is quite slow, estimated around 12 bauds: It takes 10 seconds (sped up in the video) to send a solution of 21 moves to the robot. I thought of many other ways to implement the communication (creating a custom Bluetooth adapter for example), but the current solution works out of the box, without modifying or creating any component. The communication channel is the bottleneck and the pitfall of the robot, though it is the novel feature that makes me pretty proud of it. Someone at the VEX World Championship, referring to the communication channel, told me “you made the impossible“. A bit over-the-top, but gives you the idea.

The VEX IQ brain has a slot for the radio module that allow you to make remote controlled robots.  I hope VEX will enrich the IQ system with a Bluetooth module, or release the full SDK and HDK documentation to develop custom sensors using the I2C bus.