The Maze Problem Solved by Micro mouse

ABSTRACT- A Micromouse is a miniature Electro-mechanical robot, typical consisting of 3 main subsystems: The drive system, an array of sensors, and the control system. The purpose of Micromouse is to find its way through any type of Maze in shortest time. Aside from its being a fun, competitive challenge, the micromouse has proved to be an excellent teaching medium. It can be viewed as a small system involving interdisciplinary engineering aspects. Its successful designers often work in teams, and must consider electrical, electronic, mechanical and computer issues. Design decisions and tradeoffs involve weight, speed, and power, sensing techniques, turning methods, centre of gravity and programming. Autonomous robots have wide reaching applications. From Bomb sniffing to finding humans in wreckage to home automation. This paper covers one of the most important areas of robot, “Decision making Algorithm ” or in lay-man’s language, “Intelligence”. The environment around the robot is not known, so it must have decision-making capabilities. For starting in the field of micro-mouse it is very difficult to begin with highly sophisticated algorithms. This paper covers very basic wall follower logic to solve the maze. And gradually improves the algorithm to accurately solve the maze in shortest time with some more intelligence. The Algorithm is developed up to some sophisticated level as Flood fill algorithm