Micromouse

• Main Authors: Go, Kendrick K., Lim, Patrick U., Santos, Nicholson C., Siao, Michael Q., Tan, Jefferson S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Mouse (Computer program language); Computer simulation; Computer software; Robots > Programming; Voltage regulators; Interface circuits
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/8461
• Institution: De La Salle University

A mouse originally was a small rodent, which would scamper around and eat cheese. As science progressed, scientists began to study animal behavior, often times by placing mice, or rats, in a maze, and observing the animals' actions. Eventually they got tired of trying to figure out how a mouse finds its way through a maze, and a few clever engineers decided they would see who could BUILD the best mouse for solving a maze--A Micromouse. Our Micromouse, like all of its brothers, is a completely self-contained, maze-solving robot which was built from scratch. The completed mouse was able to find its way through a complex and unknown maze and determined the best way to solve it. The mouse knows where it must start, and where it must finish, but it is on its own to determine the best way to get there. The robot is basically made up of three parts. The mechanical part which includes the stepper motors, sensors, wheels, ball bearings, and the chassis. An interface Circuit which is composed of the voltage regulator, user interface, stepper motor drives, and a sensor data acquisition module, and lastly, the software design. The group decided to buy a commercially available microcontroller, which would be ideal to use in a Micromouse. The algorithm is written in Dynamic C.