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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

Three-level controller


Now, let's examine a version of this program using the rotation sensor. This program is similar to the previous program except that the angle is set to 400 (the probable rotation of the wheels) and the blocks are set to the rotation sensors instead of the Gyro Sensors. The Gyro program used a two-level controller. A path in the case structure was chosen based on the robot's position relative to a setpoint value. Notice that, in this program, I have a switch within a switch. This allows for a three-level controller. When the robot is actually at the set-point value, no motion takes place.

In the preceding screenshot, you can see the path the switch takes for the true case of when the Motor Rotation sensor is greater than the value of the angle variable. In the following screenshot, you can see the false case, when the value is not greater than the value of the angle variable. You can see in the screenshot that to make three levels we need the switch within a switch....

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