Ops Manager Learn 4: Turn a Corner

This is the fourth challenge within the Robotics with GoPiGo and Python Curriculum.

Your task is to design a robot program that increases the volume of products that Amazing.com can ship out to its customers on a daily basis without increasing the number of robot pickers it employs.

Learn how to program and calibrate the Line Follower while they try to design an efficient system.

8. Bang! Bang!

You have just implemented what is known in the engineering industry as a Bang! Bang! controller.

This turns hard left and hard right to correct itself whenever the line is off-center. This is the robotics equivalent of a knee-jerk reaction.

You can just imagine how rough it would be to ride around in an autonomous vehicle that uses this driving strategy! What’s more, it would wear down the parts of the vehicle very quickly.