Drew's Wall Following Robot (for Trinity Firefighting), 2007

In getting ready for Trinity College's International Robot Firefighting Competition, my student, Drew Moffitt, turned his Mouse into wall-following robot. He used three Sharp IR range finders (one pointing forward, two pointing to the right) to do this. Robodyssey Systems manufactures the Mouse robot and sells the Sharp sensor.

In 2007, Drew was part of a three-person team (including Chris Green and Jimmy Chen) that programmed their robot ("Juggernaut") to autonomously navigate a maze, locate a fire, and extinguish it. Drew's program shown in this video was instrumental in the team's success. Juggernaut was one of only five teams of an international field of more than 30 robots to successfully extinguish the flame three times!

The robot's brain is the BX-24 microcontroller (by NetMedia) and is programmed using the BasicX language. The brain is powered by Robodyssey System's RAMB II motherboard. I am the author of the world's only BasicX textbook; if you are interested in learning how to program your own robot, see my website at www.basicxandrobotics.com.

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[drakeishfyre]

SLOW!

And how will you get to the floating room?

[abar40]

too slow

[RobotsAreHereNow]

very cool ,5 stars and to my fav