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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, and we therefore decided to do calibration using the bathroom door for vertical alignment.
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##### Including condition 3: Using support during calibration
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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.
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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, shown in Video 3, as we assessed that the robot had too much weight in the front because of its sensor (similar to what we did in later experiments as well). This worked better, but the robot seemed to be clinging to the door.
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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.
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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 to be), as Hurbain also suggests under his first condition [2]. This however, did not seem to have any effect at all.
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We experimented with different eye-measured 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.
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*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)*
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At this point we started wondering whether the wires to the engines were creating a problematic inconsistent weight distribution on the robot due to their moveable nature, so we tried refitting them, as can be seen in figure 2 below.
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At this point we started wondering whether the wires to the engines were creating a problematic inconsistent weight distribution on the robot due to their moveable nature, so we tried refitting them, as can be seen in Figure 2 below.
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![Re-designed robot](http://i.imgur.com/aqmakXq.png)
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