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Team Amaze Me(Micromouse 296/396)

Brandon Gibu

Chad Higa

John Miyajima

Justin Ogata

(February 9, 2008)

Fig. 1.1: Amaze Me 1.0 Fig. 1.3: *Herbie the Mousebot*

Fig. 1.2: Amaze Me 2.0

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Team Amaze Me

John Miyajima (Team Leader)

Hardware

Brandon GibuSoftware

Justin Ogata

Hardware

Chad Higa

Software

All members are responsible for Design notebook and PowerPoint presentation

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Overview of Project• Construct an autonomous robot• Navigate a 16 x 16 maze in shortest time• Implement better hardware components• Efficient solving algorithm

Fig. 3.1: Amaze Me 1.0

Fig. 1.2: Amaze Me 2.0

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Design Approach

• Make a better mouse!

EE 296 Hardware Components

 

Normal Wheels

Protoboard/wires/ribbon cable

Top down layout

Mosfets

AA batteries

Unipolar Stepper motors

EE 396 Hardware Components

 

Thicker Wheels with treads

Etching

Side Sensors

H Drivers

Lithium Ion Batteries

Bipolar stepper motors

Table 4.1 296 Hardware Table 4.2 396 Hardware

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Design Approach Software

EE 296 Software

Wall Hugger

If and else statements

EE 396 Software

Flood Fill

Costates, Stacks, and Arrays

Table 5.1 296 Software Table 5.2 396 Software

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Our Team Strategy

• Work in parallel not in series

• Set simple short term goals

• Stick to schedule

• Learn from our mistakesFig. 6.1 Clock

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Schedule (Gantt Chart)

Table 7.1 Gnatt Chart

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Gantt Chart

Table 8.1: Jan. – Feb.

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Gantt Chart

Table 9.1 Mar. – Apr.

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Gantt Chart

Table 10.1 May

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Project Difficulties

• A lot to be done

• Level of difficulty… Big Step

• Time management

• How to adjust

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Learning Outcomes

Project

-Familiarize with 296 & 396 circuits

-Better or other hardware & software techniques

-Etching

-Side sensors

-A/D converter

-Flood fill algorithm

-Bipolar Stepper motors

-Etc.

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Learning Outcomes• As a Team

– Time management• Stick to Gantt Chart

– Team work

– Set short term goals• Achieve them!

– Bring Chad up to speed

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Goals for Project

• Have the mouse get to the center!

• Be successful in terms of an Engineering Project

• “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”

Les Brown

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