Path Following Robot Competition - Technical Track

This was the second run in part 2 of the competition for my final project in my microcontrollers class. The object here is to complete the track as fast as you can and with as few errors as possible. It didn't perform as well as it did on the test track I made at home. I can attribute this mostly to the lines on the track being wider than the electrical tape I used to make the test track. It makes a big difference. Then there was just back luck. For most of the stuff to work the robot needed to be pretty much perfectly centred, and the curve following wasn't perfect. It also didn't turn around all the way at the dead end because I dropped the motor speed but forgot to increase the time the robot spun around.

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Science & Technology

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• path
• following
• robot
• competition
• pic
• microchip
• microcontroller
• technical
• track
• electronics

[13igAdam2040]

Right, seeming as you are NEVER awake during UK times. The wee robot you made, is it complete home brew or from a semi-kit, as in a kit that has a central programmable chip (like a usb servo controller or similar) ?

[alphasierra59]

@13igAdam2040 @13igAdam2040 That machine belongs to the school. The machines come in kit form, you have to assemble everything. That includes the soldering components onto the circuit boards. The machine itself is controlled by a PIC18F4525 microcontroller. It's a fairly simple 8 bit device, and it's a pretty good device to learn on. The code we wrote for it in C controls everything. Search PIC18F4525 in google if you want to find the device, I can't link it directly.

[redreaper2020]

Oh cool! Nice use of wire mod.

[alphasierra59]

@redreaper2020 Making something like this in GMod actually wouldn't be too hard.

[13igAdam2040]

@alphasierra59 Excellent, excellent, been wanting to ask that for weeks.