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Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3

You're reading from   Learning Lego Mindstorms EV3 Build and create interactive, sensor-based robots using your LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 kit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985029
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gary Garber Gary Garber
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Preface 1. Engineering Notebook FREE CHAPTER 2. Mechanical Design 3. Drive Train and Chassis 4. Sensors and Control 5. Interacting with EV3 6. Output from EV3 7. Advanced Programming 8. Advanced Programming and Control 9. Experiment Software and Data Logging 10. Other Programming Languages 11. Communication between Robots 12. Advanced Robot – Gyro Boy Index

The CHK My Block


The CHK My Block is used to make a check to see if the robot is upright or has fallen down. If the pwr variable block has an absolute value that is less than 100, timer 2 is reset. When the timer switch block measures a reading less than 1, then the state of the ok variable block is not touched and the balance loop keeps running. The initial state of the ok variable block was false. If the pwr variable block has an absolute value that is equal to 100 (we know it cannot be greater), timer 2 is not affected (thus having a larger value), and the ok variable writes a true statement, which causes the balance loop to end.

Looking in more detail, if the logic switch block receives a true value, then Timer Sensor block 2 is reset. Lastly, you saw a Timer Sensor block 2 during the RST My Block. So timer 2 was reset at the beginning of the main programming loop. The compare switch block will change the logic variable block ok to a true condition if timer 2 is greater than 1. If you...

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