Introduction

In this Unit, you will learn how to play Treasure Hunt with your Clawbot! Treasure Hunt is a timed trial competition, where your robot will move autonomously to collect red Treasure Buckyballs on the Field in the fastest time. Your robot will need to check each Buckyball along the Field as part of its run, and you will learn ways to make your code more efficient throughout the Unit. Watch the animation below to see an example of how a robot could autonomously move during a successful run in the Treasure Hunt competition.

In this animation, the Clawbot begins against the left wall in the center of the Field. On the walls to the left and right of the robot, there is a total of eight Buckyballs placed on each black line. The Buckyball second from the left on the top row is red, and the Buckyball first on the left on the bottom row is red. The robot drives forward to each black line, turns left, and drives toward the Buckyballs to detect the color. If the Buckyball is not red, it reverses and checks the one on the bottom row before continuing on. If the Buckyball is red, the robot drives to it, grasps it in the claw, and delivers it to the end of the Field. Each red Buckyball is checked off as it is scored, and the timer runs until the project is complete, stopping around 90 seconds.

In the Treasure Hunt competition, your robot will race against the clock to collect two red Treasure Buckyballs and place them into the Treasure Chest as fast as possible!

• The robot that successfully checks all Buckyballs and collects both Treasure Buckyballs the fastest, wins!
• The match has a time limit of two minutes.
• You must use the Optical Sensor, but can modify your robot however you like to optimize your strategy.

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Watch this video below to learn about what an engineering notebook is and why you should use an engineering notebook.

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