Wednesday 1/10/18 at 2:20pm
The first lab of the Preliminary R&D required a stock AEV to be built and a basic program to be written for the AEV to run. There were situations where both motors were supposed to start at the same time, but there was delay when the second motor started to run. This was most likely caused by the lines of code being on a separate line, yet that’s how the syntax of the program worked. Some of the commands used in the lab could be a problem to the AEV such as the brake command since it does not automatically stop the AEV. The brake command only stops the motor from running, meaning that the AEV would continue to move because of momentum. The team needed more guidance with the instructions and more available resources when completing this lab because an AEV kit was not available immediately, causing confusing for the team.