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Accelerate

This document discusses acceleration and how to program it using the timer block in EV3. It explains that acceleration allows a robot to steadily increase its speed over time rather than starting at full speed. The steps to program acceleration are to reset the timer, multiply the speed by a rate like 20% per second in a loop, and apply it to the move block. It provides an example acceleration code and challenge to create a my block that takes duration and rate as inputs to accelerate for a set time.

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Accelerate

This document discusses acceleration and how to program it using the timer block in EV3. It explains that acceleration allows a robot to steadily increase its speed over time rather than starting at full speed. The steps to program acceleration are to reset the timer, multiply the speed by a rate like 20% per second in a loop, and apply it to the move block. It provides an example acceleration code and challenge to create a my block that takes duration and rate as inputs to accelerate for a set time.

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PRIME LESSONS

By the Makers of EV3Lessons

ACCELERATION
BY SANJAY AND ARVIND SESHAN
LESSON OBJECTIVES

¢ Learn what acceleration means


¢ Learn how and when to use accelerate
¢ Learn how to use the Timer Block

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WHY RAMP UP

• Acceleration is very helpful when


running fast-paced programs
• The speed steadily increases over Acceleration of Speed

time in a linear fashion 120

100
• Usually, if the robot starts up with 80

speed (%)
high speed, then there would be a 60

small jerk in the beginning. The 40

jerk may change the position of


20

the robot. 0 1 2 3
Time (seconds)
4 5 6

• With the acceleration, it would


start up slowly and increase speed
over time (see video on the right)

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NEW TOOL: TIMER BLOCK

¢ The timer block is used to count time


¢ It is found in the Blue sensor tab
¢ 1 timer is available You can use the reset timer block to reset a
the timer back to 0 seconds
¢ You can use the block to read the time since reset…
¢ If you are a FIRST LEGO League Challenge team, you can use
timers to track time or for the acceleration code in this lesson

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ACCELERATE IN 4 EASY STEPS

1. Reset timer
2. In a loop, read the number of seconds passed and multiply the speed by 20. The 20 is
the rate at which it speeds up and is measured in speed/second
3. Still in the loop, take the result of the multiplication and apply it to the move block.
4. Repeat the Loop for 5 seconds (duration)

Note that the final speed will be final speed = duration*rate which should be less than or
equal to 100

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ACCELERATION CODE

Reset timer

Set movement motors

Accelerate over the course of 5 seconds

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ACCELERATION CHALLENGE

Step 1: Can you now make an acceleration


program that takes 2 inputs (total duration
of acceleration and how much speed you
want the motor to accelerate per second)?
Create a My Block.

Step 2: Accelerate your robot, then move


until a black line.

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MAKING THE MY BLOCK

A. Go to Make a My Block

B. Add 2 inputs: one for seconds


Seconds How (duration) and one for how
to ramp quickly you quickly you want to accelerate
up want to
(rate)
ramp up

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DEFINING THE MY BLOCK

Drag the “duration” and “rate” operators into the correct locations

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CHALLENGE SOLUTION

This program accelerates for 2


seconds to 40% speed and
moves until the color sensor
(on port B) sees a black line.

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NEXT STEPS

¢ Think about what else you might be able to use a timer block for
¢ Create a deceleration program now that you know how to create an acceleration
program.

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CREDITS

¢ This lesson was created by Sanjay Seshan and Arvind Seshan for Prime Lessons
¢ More lessons are available at www.primelessons.org

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International


License.
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