AMOS's New Year Resolutions Part 2

My blog post from a year ago happened to be the most popular in terms of views for 2019 by a long shot. I'm not exactly sure why. It was about AMOS's New Year resolutions, so maybe people were curious, or maybe it was just some fluke of Google Search that happened to funnel some people to my blog. At any rate, in this post I'll look at how AMOS fared in its resolutions for 2019, and then make a few new ones for 2020.

AMOS wasn't ready for autonomous operation until the end of August, which wasn't really optimal in terms of the amount of sunlight available. Its overall reliability was greatly improved over the 2018 version though, and it managed to operate autonomously for three consecutive days on two separate occasions. Had AMOS been ready to go autonomously back in May, it is conceivable that the full 1000 km total distance goal might have been attained. For getting more than 50 km in a single trip, I think this would only be possible with a larger battery.

So just like most people, AMOS didn't quite stick to all of its resolutions. Now for the new ones in 2020:

Time will tell whether or not these are achieved. In working towards the first two resolutions, I am presently learning about JavaScript and WebGL in order to make an online custom ordering system for AMOS. The idea is to have a 3D web interface where you can pick and choose what elements of the robot you would like to have, see what the robot looks like in 3D, rotate it around, zoom in, etc., see its overall specifications and capabilities, and also see how many dollars the whole thing costs.