Micromouse

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Micromouse
Spring 2006
The Pied Pipers
K A L
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Introduction of Team and Roles

• The Pied Pipers
• Joanne Programming
• Ken Hardware
• Alyssa Hardware

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Overview of Project
To design, construct, and build an autonomous
mouse that will navigate through a maze
independent of human control.
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Discussion of Approach
To implement a top looking design using unipolar
stepper motors and a wall hugging software code
which will then be expanded into the maze
flooding algorithm.
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Potential Problems

• Our group researched problems that previous
  groups have had to avoid making mistakes. The
  major problems we found were
• Overheating
• One motor can be faster than the other
• Debugging programs
• Body of mouse may not be aligned properly
• Placement of batteries on mouse
• Sensors may misread and malfunction

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Expectations

• To successfully create a mouse that will find
  the center of a maze in the allotted time.
• To gain hands on experience with implementing
  theoretical design into a physically working
  model.
• To explore different approaches for designing
  and logically determining the most efficient
  solution.

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Goals

• To design and build a mouse
• To be able to make our mouse move forward
• To make our mouse turn left/right
• To create a program that maps the movement of
  the mouse
• To be able to make a wall hugging mouse work
• To have a working mouse find the center of the
  maze
• To WIN!

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February
Research and Design
Build Body (Alyssa)
Proposal Presentation
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March
Build Sensors and Motors (Ken)
Test motors and sensors
Program Tracking, Sensors, Motors (Joanne)
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April - May
Work on Debugging and Improvements
Complete Mouse
Final Presentation Final Paper Due
2nd Draft of Paper
Final Draft of Paper