Shane Sunada
Malcolm Menor
Joseph Longhi
- Autonomous maze solving robot
-16x16 maze starting at corner
- No contact after switched on
- No going under or over walls
- 10 minute time limit
- Chebyshev 1
- Top down IR sensors
- 12 V Large, unipolar steppers
- Expensive Rabbit processor
- Linear Voltage Regulator
- 10 AA NiMH Batteries
- Voltage based on distance
- Minimum range problem
- Allows correction accuracy
- Smaller size
- More control
- Requires motor driver
- Cheaper then Unipolar
- Inexpensive
- Compact
- Appropriate usage
- Many features
- C programming- Brains of Mouse
- Solving algorithm- Tracking- Positioning
- Wall hugger- Random choice- Move to center- Flood fill
- PID controller- Proportional- Integral- Differential
Sensors
Motors
Controller Solving
Tracking
Position
Hardware Software
- Performance degradation- Step count- Program Memory- 1-Sided PCB- Time
- Importance of Data Sheets- Using Control Registers- Efficient Circuit Design- PCB Design- Troubleshooting