MicroMouse Research Paper
GS1140: Negotiating a Maze
GS1140: Negotiating a Maze
Arthur Cannon Scott Henson Angela Randall Cody Hayward Juan Rodriguez
ITT-Technical Institute San Bernardino
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to explore the design of a maze, a robot, and a strategy to participate in the micromouse competition according to IEEE regulations. According to the IEEE regulations the robot has to navigate the maze on its own. For this project we will be going over some of the different parts that are used in the robot to be able to have it navigate itself through the maze. Each robot has to find its way through the maze and figure out how to get all the way through the maze. It will go through one time to figure out how to finish the maze then it will go ahead and do a full run from the beginning to the end and see if the robot makes any mistakes.
Contest Rules The objective of the contest is to build a small self-contained robot to negotiate a maze in the shortest possible time. The rules for the robot are as follows: MicroMouse shall be self-contained (no remote controls), MicroMouse shall not use an energy source employing a combustion process, MicroMouse shall not jump over, fly over, climb, scratch, cut, burn, mark, damage, or destroy the walls of the maze, MicroMouse shall not be larger either in length or in width than 16 cm, and any violation of the rules will constitute immediate disqualification from the contest and ineligibility for the associated prizes. The maze must be: composed of multiples of an 18cm x 18cm unit square, walls are 5 cm high and 1.2 cm thick, the outside wall encloses the entire maze, sides of the maze walls are white, the tops of the walls are red, and the floor is black, must be made of wood, finished with a non-gloss paint, start of the maze is located at one of the four corners, start square is bounded on three sides by walls, start line is located between the first and its second squares, and multiple
GS1140: Negotiating a Maze
Arthur Cannon Scott Henson Angela Randall Cody Hayward Juan Rodriguez
ITT-Technical Institute San Bernardino
Abstract
The purpose of this project is to explore the design of a maze, a robot, and a strategy to participate in the micromouse competition according to IEEE regulations. According to the IEEE regulations the robot has to navigate the maze on its own. For this project we will be going over some of the different parts that are used in the robot to be able to have it navigate itself through the maze. Each robot has to find its way through the maze and figure out how to get all the way through the maze. It will go through one time to figure out how to finish the maze then it will go ahead and do a full run from the beginning to the end and see if the robot makes any mistakes.
Contest Rules The objective of the contest is to build a small self-contained robot to negotiate a maze in the shortest possible time. The rules for the robot are as follows: MicroMouse shall be self-contained (no remote controls), MicroMouse shall not use an energy source employing a combustion process, MicroMouse shall not jump over, fly over, climb, scratch, cut, burn, mark, damage, or destroy the walls of the maze, MicroMouse shall not be larger either in length or in width than 16 cm, and any violation of the rules will constitute immediate disqualification from the contest and ineligibility for the associated prizes. The maze must be: composed of multiples of an 18cm x 18cm unit square, walls are 5 cm high and 1.2 cm thick, the outside wall encloses the entire maze, sides of the maze walls are white, the tops of the walls are red, and the floor is black, must be made of wood, finished with a non-gloss paint, start of the maze is located at one of the four corners, start square is bounded on three sides by walls, start line is located between the first and its second squares, and multiple
References: "Micro mouse Rules - Region 6 Southwest Area." UCSD IEEE RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. http://www.europment.org/library/2013/venice/bypaper/SCI/SCI-15.pdf.