Now we are going to do some detailed analysis of what the robot needs to do by using the storyboard process. This works like this: We take each of our two tasks and break them down as completely as we can based on the answers to all of our W questions. Then we make a picture of each step. The pictures can be either a drawing or a word picture (a paragraph) describing what happens in that step.
I like to start the decomposition process by describing the robot in terms of a state machine, which for the first problem may be a good approach to understanding what is going on. You are probably familiar with state machine diagrams, but just in case: a state machine diagram describes the robot’s behavior as a series of discrete ...
