The strategy of the master brick determines everything what is going to happen, it runs as a threat with a lower priority then the communication. It executes the primary functions such as driving, measuring the lake temperature and communication.
Software
The strategy software uses switch cases to put the rover in its correct state. The action to be executed is determined by carefully chosen if and else statements. The statements are triggered by the return statements of the functions used.
The used states are:
- Communicate earth; The Brick communicates with the earth to obtain the coordinates.
- Approach lake; The rover is going to approach the lake with the obtained coordinates.
- Temperature Lake; The temperature of the lake is measured and send to the earth computer.
- Get away; We are finished at the lake so it is bypassed. from the lake after measuring
- Zig Zag; If something does not work properly the rover will start zig-zagging for a certain amount of time and will keep on trying to start again.
The used states are:
