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Re: Micromouse Robotic Competition, Could RCX do this?
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Fri, 1 Feb 2002 07:43:58 GMT
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Quinton Delpeche <quintond@knowledgefactory.co./nospam/za>
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Hey,
Sounds kewl... ...I would probably try and implement it with a 2 RCX, 1 Scout
system.
Scout and RCX for sensor and motor controls, RCX for Datalogging and adding
to the learning of the robot.
Should be enough to get you through the maze.
Hmmm... ...I am getting my second RCX this weekend, 2 RCX and 1 Scout is what
I'll have... ...maybe I'll give a prototype a bash this weekend.
Q
On Friday 01 February 2002 08:57, Dick Swan wrote:
> I recently stumbled across a reference to the Micromouse Robotics
> competition and thought others in the group might find it interesting. It
> looks like something that would be [barely] achieveable with a Mindstorms
> implementation.
>
> APEC [Applied Power and Engineering Conference] hosts a Micromouse robot
> maze solving competition at its annual conference. This year's conference
> is March 11 in Dallas. IEEE apparently also has a similar event. I haven't
> seen any mention of this in previous posts and wonder if anyone has ever
> built an entry using RCX? I wish I had discovered this earlier as I might
> have attempted a Mindstorms entry as I'm a Dallas resident. Details are at
> http://www.apec-conf.org/2002/APEC02_Entering_The_MicroMouse_Contest.html.
>
> I did a bunch of browsing on "micromouse" and found numerous references
> throughout the web. Many from universities that submit student entries just
> about every year. Mostly built on some flavor of 8-bit processor. The
> contest has been at annual event for ~15 years. Contest rules are at
> http://www.apec-conf.org/APEC_MicroMouse_Contest_Rules.html.
>
> http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/C.Kanesalingam/kanesh.htm provides a nice
> architecture diagram of one past entry -- 3 light sensors, 2 motors with
> rotation counters. [I guess a dualRCX design is required]. This particular
> mouse was built using Mechanno for the mechanical design.
>
> http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/eca/micromouse is also a nice reference. In
> particular look under "Boris" for a nice picture of a non-Lego
> implementation. The "Maze Solving" section is also useful to understand the
> software complexity.
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