Results
For the quality portion of the program, we found that knowing what the temperature of the current tile was greatly improved the results in this type of environment.A total of 50 trials were conducted with 25 haptics trials and 25 non-haptics trials. Haptics technology was successful 72% of the time while non-haptics technology was successful only 8% of the time. There was an average of 230 moves for the 18 successful haptics trials. The non-haptics took an average of 238 moves. Although this isn’t a significant difference in the number of moves, there were only two successes in the non-haptics trials.
The speed portion of the program showed that using haptic technology did have quite a big impact on the amount of time it took the robot to reach the target. For the speed portion, a total of 20,000 trials were run. 10,000 trials of Haptics and 10,000 trials with non-haptics. The average time until success for haptics was 1926 seconds, as opposed to the non-haptics trials which took an average of 3250 seconds. This shows a significant decrease in the amount of time it takes until it succeeds if using a haptics-enabled robots. This is a remarkable amount of time that can be saved by using the haptic technology.
