Comment by Gravityloss
9 years ago
In part 1 you mention that under vibration the bricks self assemble into bridges that obstruct the conveyor belt, and you want to minimize that.
How about maximizing it instead? Try to build bridges as long as possible? Or some other fitness function?
In theory you could control the vibration sequence and the part feeding sequence (once you have sorted all the parts :) ) and use an evolutionary algorithm...
That's a hilarious idea. I'm somewhat tempted to try this. I've managed to bridge 35 cm 'by accident', I'm pretty sure you could go substantially larger than that with relatively little work.