Mobile Robot: Search

For our project, we created two robots programmed to move randomly until they touch–after which they would spin together forever. This is an exploration into partnership, and how partnerships are formed. When the project is run, the movement is often sharp, and the robots will veer very close to each other without actually touching. This is indicative of the difficulty finding partnership can sometimes be, and indicative of how sometimes you may veer very close to each other without actually meeting. Overall, however, I think this project takes on a much more explorative tone rather than one that conveys an explicit message.

Personally, I worked mainly on the software side, and getting the robots to recognize when they touched.

We used an mbed, a 3pi, and conductive film to create this project.

Video: https://vimeo.com/143955313

The code can be found here:

Robot_Love – a mercurial repository | mbed