Micromouse Design Presentations From Minos 2009
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 27 of April , 2009 at 2:58 am
The Minos 2009 micromouse competition (more on micromice here) in the UK last weekend also featured a bunch of different presentations on micromouse design theory and practice. Topics included navigation, sensors, control and communications, strategy, and even some updates on a vision-guided mouse, which (and I’m totally going out on a limb here) could be a huge advantage if the mouse was able to see down diagonals or something. Anyway, descriptions and a lot the media (including vids) from these presentations is available online for your edification here.
The picture above, btw, is a neat visual explanation of how a micromouse ‘thinks.’ Click on it for a full size version. I found it on the British Amateur Electronics Club website here.
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Comment by Martin Raynsford
Made Monday, 27 of April , 2009 at 7:17 am
The real advantage from using cameras on your mouse come from being able to look over walls at what might be in the next row over. There is no height limit in the micromouse competition.
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Monday, 27 of April , 2009 at 8:03 am
Really? I would have thought that that would be cheating, or something… Why not just build a mast to get a picture of (hypothetically) the entire maze, and solve it that way?