Tittle Activity: Proposal Report and Final Report Preparation
Objective: To prepare Introduction for Proposal Report and Final Report
The tittle for the Inter-Section Robotic challenge has been given. The competition entitled Micromouse competition. Micromouse competition is where miniature robots compete to solve a maze in shortest possible time. The robots have to be autonomous, independent from any forms of aids from human and making its own decision while navigating through the maze. Below is the information regarding the Micromouse and Micromouse competition.
Autonomous robot
Autonomous robots are robots that can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance. A fully autonomous robot has the ability to gain information about the environment, processing the information and making its own decision to achieve the desired tasks by working or moving either all or part of itself without human assistance. It is also able to avoid situations that are harmful to people, property or itself unless those are part of its design specifications. An autonomous robot may also learn or gain new capabilities such as adjusting strategies for accomplishing its tasks or adapting to changing surroundings.
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_robot
A robot is a machine designed to execute one or more tasks repeatedly, with speed and precision. There are as many different types of robots as there are tasks for them to perform.
A robot can be controlled by a human operator, sometimes from a great distance. But most robots are controlled by computer, and fall into either of two categories: autonomous robots and insect robots. An autonomous robot acts as a stand-alone system, complete with its own computer (called the controller). Insect robots work in fleets ranging in number from a few to thousands, with all fleet members under the supervision of a single controller. The term insect arises from the similarity of the system to a colony of insects, where the individuals are simple but the fleet as a whole can be sophisticated.
Citation: http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/definition/robot
Micromouse Competition
Micromouse is an annual robotics competition where small autonomous robot mice compete against each other to solve a 16x16 maze in the shortest time. Mice can be as simple as a Lego Mindstorms kit with light and touch sensors, or as complex as a vision guided chassis with DC motors controlled by a Digital Signal Processing chip. It began in late 1970s, although there is some indication of events in 1950. Events are held worldwide, and are most popular in the UK, U.S., Japan, Singapore, India and South Korea.
In UK, the national Micromouse competition had been run under the auspices of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) for some years. Following the 1999 competition at Exeter, the IEE reluctantly decided to concentrate on the new schools micromouse competition (which is based on line following) and to withdraw from the senior competition.
To view for history of Micromouse competition, please click the link below:
http://www.micromouseonline.com/micromouse-book/history/#axzz1eEZOHhDv
Micromouse Rules
The list of Micromouse rules can be obtained from the following link:
http://www.robothon.org/robothon/micromouse.php
31st All Japan Micromouse Robot Event: Ng Beng Kiat (Singapore)
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