line tracer

Line Follower Sensors Setup

Posted Sun, 16/11/2008 - 21:17 by peteh

IMG_3258With the sensors installed and the robot pretty well complete, it is time to see if they can actually do the job they were designed for. the idea is that the line of sensors will be able to measure the robots offset from the centre of the line over as wide a range as possible.

Line Follower Test Track

Posted Sun, 16/11/2008 - 20:22 by peteh

IMG_3257 You can't build a line follower without a test track to run it on. The proposed UK rules for this competition specify the track to be on a 300mm grid with fixed turn radii of 150mm. Well, I don't have room for that and I don't want to make tiles either so a little lateral thinking is called for...