––Devlog 16––

Testing Sentinel in the Real World

Yesterday I focused on just testing it over obstacles

I’ve spent a lot of recent sessions improving the autonomous navigation system, failsafe logic, sensor handling, mission statistics, and the beginning of the retrace system.

Physical Testing

I spent the session working with Sentinel’s real hardware and observing how the different systems behave outside of the Arduino IDE.

I focused on:

• Motor movement
• Servo movement
• Ultrasonic sensor behavior
• Sensor positioning
• Current wiring
• Rover movement
• Existing manual controls
• Existing autonomous behavior