micromouse maze solving robot chang yuen chung universiti ...

vABSTACTThe IEEE micromouse competition has been a popular event amongengineering students and engineers. A micromouse is an autonomous vehicle whoseobjective is to find the centre of an unknown maze. This thesis summarizes thedesign and implementation of the micromouse for the UTM final year project ofsemester 2008/2009. The design method of the micromouse project consisted of twostages. The first stage was to design and construct individual system. The secondstage of the design process was to interface the systems to form the final prototype.The individual components of micromouse system consist of the motor controlsystem, navigation sensor array, and a mapping system or algorithm for navigatingthe maze intelligently. A 7x7 cell maze was developed in order to validate the overallperformance of the micromouse. As a result of the whole project, the micromousewill eventually move to the centre of the maze without external help and manage tofind the shortest path from the mapping system after navigating all the possible pathin the maze.