How to use Motion Sensor to turn accurately with LEGO Education SPIKE Prime Pro Preview

In this video tutorial will use the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime robot and we will try to do a basic turn with the motion sensor that will turn the robot to 90 degrees. This makes it easier for us to know where we are on the competition field and how we can position the robot correctly. Basic turn with the motion sensor. Let's see how it works. Here it is. Motion sensor turn 90 degrees. It's not exactly 90 degrees. And I'll explain why in the program that will enter into the details next. But the robot turns and its behavior is quite consistent. It turns to about 95, 96 degrees. We start again and it turns and it uses the motion sensor to turn and try to turn to about 90 degrees. Let's see it from another angle.

Start.

Now we enter into the program.

I have my program on the left and you can see the program we've developed. You can see all the different blocks on the right. We see the video of the robot, how the robot behaves. And I'll do a step by step move through the different blocks. First when the program starts and it's somewhere around here we are at when program starts, set movement Motors A and B. On the left, we have motor A. On the right, we have motor B. Both of them will move with the speed of 30%. Then we set the Yaw angle of the motion sensor to zero. This is the angle because the motion sensor detacts three angles and this is the angle that we detect when the robot turns horizontally. Then we start moving. We start moving and we start moving to one of the directions either to the left or to the right. In our case, we will move to the right. So this is how we've configured the Motors. We will move to the right and when we are moving to the right, we wait. We have a block that waits. We move, we move. And in this wait we start moving from here and we move and we wait until the sensor detects an angle of 87 degrees or slightly above 87 degrees. So we have both checks. Now you can use both of the checks or you can use just one of the checks more than 87 degrees. The reason why we check both is for us to be able to describe in the video that the way the sensor works, the motion sensor works is that it might detect 85, 86 and then 89 degrees. So if you just use this check angle equals to 87, this might never occur because the sensor detects like 80,83,85,89, it is not exactly equal to 87 at any point in time. That's why we use larger than 87. So when it is larger than 87, then stop. And an interesting thing here about the robot is that there is some inertia going on. So you see, we start from an angle of zero and we move and as we move 90 degrees is somewhere here, but the robot does not stop there. The robot continues to move forward and as it moves forward, it moves forward because of the inertia, but it's consistent. It moves forward consistently. Which is nice. If we configure this angle here to be equal to 82, probably it will stop exactly at 90. Now there are other ways to make it stop exactly at 90 and we'll enter into more details in some of the next videos. For this tutorial, it's just basic turn with the motion sensor and how the robot turns. Hope you like it, move on to the next lesson after you try to download the program, put it on the robot, download it on the robot and try to experiment with this program and see how it works.