Micromouse is an autonomous robot designed to reach the center of an unknow maze in shortest possible time and distance .
HISTORY OF MICROMOUSE
The first micromice were mechanical. In 1972, the "Machine Design" magazine sponsored a contest in which springpowered mice pitted their stamina against one another to see which could travel the longest distance down a racetrack. The first-placed "mousemobile" was one which travelled 825.3 feet.
In 1977, the IEEE Spectrum magazine, came up with the concept of a Micromouse -a small microprocessor controlled robot vehicle imbued with the intelligence and capability to decipher and navigate a complicated maze. In May 1977, Spectrum announced the first US Amazing Micromouse Maze Contest to be held in June 1979, New York. Only 15 micromice competed out of 6,000 entries received.
Since the first US contest organised in 1977, there has been no turning back. Not only do the micromice get smarter and smarter year by year, but so do the maze designers.
Achievements of My MicroMouse
- Won SECOND prize in National Level Autonomous Robotics competition, Kurukshetra'07 at Anna university.
- Qualified for finals (Less than 20 qualified totally) in International Level Autonomous Robotics competition at IIT Bombay's Techfest'07 and getting ready for Techfest'08
Technical details of my MOUSE
Motors : 2 stepper motors
Mode of driving : Bipolar
Motor Driver : L293D
Microcontroller : Atmega32
Sensors : 3 IR led photodiode pair's (non modulated)
Batteries : 3 Li-ion batteries of 1600 mAHr
Turnings : In space integrated
Algorithm : Floodfill
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Robovigyan @ Pragyan 09 !!!
Pragyan 09, the annual Technical Festival of National Institute Of Technology, Trichy presents Robovigyan, the Robotics Competition.To be held from February 12th, 2009 to February 15th, 2009.
The Robovigyan event comprises of three challenges :
1.Micro Mouse ( The Maze Traversing Mouse Contest )
2.Square Route ( The Line Follower Competition)
3.Slam Dunk ( Robots Playing Basketball )
Micro Mouse :
A Micromouse is an autonomous bot that should be able to traverse to the center of a given labyrinthic maze in the least possible time.
Prize Money : More than INR 50,000/- in cash.
Team: Team may consist of upto 5 participants
(Not necessary to be from the same college).
Contacts:
Rameez Raja ( +91 9941350239 )
Manimaran S ( +91 9486193083 )
micromouse@pragyan.org
Square Route:
Problem Statement :
Design an autonomous bot that navigates a path with rectangular loops and outputs the number of the largest loop.
Prize Money : More than INR 20,000/- in cash.
Team: A maximum of 3 members is allowed per team. (Not necessary to be from the same college).
Contacts:
Anusha Balan +91 99440 74182
Aswin Chander +91 94861 32312
squareroute@pragyan.org
Slam Dunk:
Problem Statement :
Each team must build an autonomous bot and a manual bot.
The teams will duel against each other to win matches viz. team A and team B.
Team A has to try putting the ball in the Team B's basket while Team B prevents Team A from doing so and vice versa.
Team: A team can have up to 4 participants
(Not necessary to be from the same college).
Contacts:
Savio James +91 9994924521
Prasanth P +91 9443909789
slamdunk@pragyan.org
For more details regarding rules & regulations,visit
http://www.pragyan.org/09/home/events/robovigyan/
See you at Pragyan 09.
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