Author Archives: Peter Harrison

Micromouse Symposium 2019

By Peter Harrison | March 12, 2019

The 1st Micromouse Symposium 27 April 2019, Gondomar, Portugal Micromouse Symposium 2019, the 1st International Symposium on Micromouse, will be held in Gondomar, Portugal, 27th April 2019. Industry experts, researchers and academics are expected to gather together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related to the Micromouse Robotic Contest. Micromouse… Read More »

Minos 2019

By Peter Harrison | January 22, 2019

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The 19th conference takes place on 6th and 7th April 2019 at the Quality Hotel in Coventry, U.K. Papers are requested on all aspects of Micromouse and small autonomous robot design and use. Maze solving, wall following, line following and drag racing are the main contexts in both full-size and half-size formats. There will be… Read More »

All Japan 2018 Micromouse Live Stream

By Peter Harrison | December 1, 2018

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Micromouse maze solving performance

By Peter Harrison | October 28, 2018

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For many people, the task of solving the maze is central to the micromouse robot problem. After a while they come to realise that it is secondary to actually making the robot move quickly and reliably through the maze. Even so, the maze has to be solved. My micromouse software expects to be able to… Read More »

A simple git workflow

By Peter Harrison | October 6, 2018

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Source management is essential to software development. Even if you only use it to undo mistakes, there are great benefits. Of the available systems, git is probably the most popular. It is directly supported inside many editors and IDEs as well as the incredible resource that is github. Here is a simple workflow method that… Read More »

Changes to the All-Japan Micromouse Contest for 2018

By Peter Harrison | June 28, 2018

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Every year since its inception, the All-Japan contest has grown in popularity and stature. During that time, there have been many changes. Most notably, the half-size event, introduced in 2009, has become very popular. There are now so many entries that organising the event must meet new challenges each year. For 2018, the contest in… Read More »

Techfest 2018 – UK micromouse contest

By Peter Harrison | June 10, 2018

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The UK micromouse contest returned once more to Birmingham City University as part of the annual Techfest event on June 9th, 2018. As well as the UK entries, there were also three robots from Nanjing University, China.

Techfest 2018 – UK Schools micromouse contest

By Peter Harrison | June 10, 2018

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The 2018 National Schools and Colleges Micromouse competition took place on Saturday 9th June hosted by Birmingham City University as part of the TechFest event. We were as ever provided with excellent facilities at Millennium Point on the BCU City Centre Campus.

Otley College Micromouse

By Peter Harrison | May 14, 2018

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Just in case you were expecting some hot micromouse action at Otley college on Sunday May 20th, I am sorry to tell you that there will be none this year. Perhaps next time.

Minos 2018

By Peter Harrison | April 10, 2018

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Minos 2018 was held over the weekend of April 7/8 at the Quality Hotel, Coventry. New venue, several new faces but the expected collection of great presentations and activities for micromouse and small robot builders.