The Cool Robot is a solar power, autonomous robot that was developed by a team of students at Dartmouth Thayer School in conjunction with Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). In 2005 the Cool Robot was tested at Greenland Summit. The last two years have been spent in implementing the robot and redesigning its solar panel box. Now it is time to test Cool Robot and its improvement as it makes it way back to Greenland for its 2nd visit.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Day 16 - Bright and Sunny!
Ben is currently eating dinner after chasing the robot on its last lap, of two, next to the skiway and is complaining about the titles of my posts saying they sound like a prison sentence, so to humor him I have added that it is Bright and Sunny! Which it is pretty much ALL of the time here! The sun had never set sense we have arrived. Ok back to what or how the robot is doing today. Well we have set Cool Robot to work doing the same two laps it did earlier this week while we continue to work on the coding of the battery limits and slowing down when there is not enough power. Hopefully when the robot comes back we will give it the new code and can send it on a night (still sunny) mission while we all try to sleep in our tents. I know these past couple of post have been kind of bland so for the next one I promise to post at least one picture with it.
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