Team Amaze Me (Micromouse 296/396)

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Team Amaze Me(Micromouse 296/396)
Fig. 1.1 Amaze Me 1.0
Fig. 1.3 Herbie the Mousebot
Fig. 1.2 Amaze Me 2.0

• Brandon Gibu
• Chad Higa
• John Miyajima
• Justin Ogata
• (February 9, 2008)

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Team Amaze Me
John Miyajima (Team Leader) Hardware
Brandon Gibu Software
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. 1.2 Amaze Me 2.0
Fig. 3.1 Amaze Me 1.0
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Design Approach

• Make a better mouse!

EE 396 Hardware Components
 
Thicker Wheels with treads
Etching
Side Sensors
H Drivers
Lithium Ion Batteries
Bipolar stepper motors
EE 296 Hardware Components
 
Normal Wheels
Protoboard/wires/ribbon cable
Top down layout
Mosfets
AA batteries
Unipolar Stepper motors
Table 4.2 396 Hardware
Table 4.1 296 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 mistakes

Fig. 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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Thank You

• Questions and Comments