Radd Yatogo

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• Radd Yatogo
• Aurelio Ganiban
• Troy Kohatsu
• Jamie Yamamoto

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Preview of Presentation

• Overview
• Project Breakdown
• - Modules/ Subsystems
• Current/ Future Problems
• Resolutions
• Gantt Chart

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Overview

• Micro-mouse (EE 296)
• Team Objectives Expectations
• Approach for Success

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Breakdown

• Hardware
• - Components
• Software
• - Algorithm

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Hardware Body

• Construction Guidelines
• - Light, Neat, Appealing, Functional
• Dimensions
• Materials

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Hardware Inputs

• Infrared Sensors
• Noncontact sensing
• Will use on all sides to sense walls

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Hardware Outputs

• Bipolar Stepper Motors
• - Brand Nippon Pulse Motor (NPM)
• Why Specific Motor?
• Why 4x4?

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Hardware Interface

• Insulated Copper Wire
• 18-24 AWG
• Future Implementation
• Etching PCBs

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Software Algorithm

• Input usage
• - Accommodate Path Deviation
• Initialization/ Default
• Program Realization of Maze
• - Multi-Dimensional Array
• - Coordinate System
• - Navigate, store, read data in array

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Software Algorithm

• Getting to Center
• Getting Back to Origin
• Short Path Realization

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Current Problems

• Time Management
• Limitations and/or Availability of Tools
• Component Functionality (Faulty?)
• Algorithm to Coding Transition

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Future Problems

• Faulty Construction or Design
• Software to Hardware Interface
• Algorithm Realization
• Debugging Time

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Gantt Chart