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From this attempt we decided that we didn't trust our abilites to calibrate the robot in the dark using just our hands and eyes to measure when the robot was standing upright, why we decided to do calibration using the bathroom door.
From this attempt we decided that we didn't trust our abilites to calibrate the robot in the dark using just our hands and eyes to measure when the robot was standing upright, why we decided to do calibration using the bathroom door.
##### Including condition 3: Using support during calibration
##### Including condition 3: Using support during calibration
After the first, failed attempt, we tried calibrating the robot while it was resting against the door to the bathroom, as the door was perpendicular to the floor and flat. This allowed the robot to calibrate at a more steady, upright position - this, for instance, reduced the risk of us accidentally tilting the robot when pushing the start button after calibration (or actually during, since it goes wrong because the robot is still calibrating while we are trying to push the button). We placed the robot at a small angle to the door (see Video 2), as we assessed that the robot had too much weight in the front because of its sensor. This worked better, but the robot seemed to be clinging to the door.
After the first failed attempt we tried calibrating the robot while it was resting against the door to the bathroom, as the door was perpendicular to the floor and flat. This allowed the robot to calibrate at a more steady, upright position - this, for instance, reduced the risk of us accidentally tilting the robot when pushing the start button after calibration (or actually during, since it goes wrong because the robot is still calibrating while we are trying to push the button). We placed the robot at a small angle to the door (similar to later work, see Video 3), as we assessed that the robot had too much weight in the front because of its sensor. This worked better, but the robot seemed to be clinging to the door.
After this we decided to turn on the lights, to try the effect of the robot under some kind of fluorescent light (which we judged the bathroom lights were), as Hurbain also suggests under his first condition [2]. This however, did not seem to have any effect at all.
We experimented with different angles of the robot when leaning against the door, one of these shown in Video 3, where our angle was too big, causing the robot to constantly lean against the door.
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXfxQUSM9SA)
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXfxQUSM9SA)
*Video 2: Calibrating the robot against the door, with a somewhat succesful result (the robot didn't fall over that quickly, but didn't remain standing in one spot either)*
*Video 3: Calibrating the robot against the door, with a somewhat succesful result (the robot didn't fall over that quickly, but didn't remain standing in one spot either)*
At this point we started wondering whether the wires to the engines were creating a problematic inconsistent weight distribution on the robot, so we tried refitting it, as can be seen in Video 4 and beyond.
We turned on the light - see video
We tried a stiber angle which worked much better - see video
We tried to get rid of the weight difference that came from the bouncing wires and therefore 'rebuild' the robot.
