Preliminary Design Review

MicromouseEE 296Spring 2008

Aether Burst

Our Team

Blaise Arita Team Leader Maran Osakoda Organizer Shaunty Kleinschmidt Programmer Matthew Menor Designer

Overview

This semester we will be designing, fabricating, and programming a small robotic mouse to make its way to the center of a difficult 16X16 maze.

Block Diagram

Accomplishments So Far

Top looking sensors

Made a prototype uMouse

General Structure of our uMouse

Bought most of the materials

Started writing some of the Algorithms

A Look into the Hardware

This is what we first started off with:

Material: 1/32 Aluminum

Problems:

Very thin, Not rigid

Wasted Space

No support for other

hardware components

Our Ideal uMouse

Our uMouse Now

Material: 1/16 Angled Aluminum

8 Shortened M3 Screw Lighter Motors very close together Use 8 AA batteries Use Velcro to secure battery

holders Use “mini furniture sliders” to

keep the uMouse balanced Use top 2 Aluminum plates to

mount circuit boards

Some Potential Problems No Wheels Can’t test height off the ground Can’t test position and distance of

sensor boards Difficult to keep wires organized Fitting the circuit boards on the chassis with

the wheels Finding the quickest and simplest way to find

the center Once to the center, how to go back to the start

efficiently Motors getting too hot Supplying enough power for the 10 minutes Time Management

Tasks Remaining

Number of sensors to be used Need to test sensors for

approximate wall distance Build circuit boards Finish construction of uMouse Program and test on uMouse

Gantt Chart

Thank You!

Any Questions?