Tag Archives: sensors

Pointing the sensors

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Harjit Singh

How do you decide where to point the sensors?

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Decimus 2 sensor geometry

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Peter Harrison

Decimus 2 is now nearly ready to go. I don’t have much hope of having it ready for the Japan contest but it is worth a try. The mouse weighs only 2/3 as much as its predecessor at about 115g … Continue reading →

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Line Follower Sensors Setup

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Peter Harrison

With 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 … Continue reading →

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Line follower sensor experiments

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Peter Harrison

The simplest arrangement for a line follower is probably two sensors with digital outputs. As long as one can see the line and the other can see the background, the controller is happy otherwise it must turn left or right … Continue reading →

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New line follower robot

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Peter Harrison

Line followers are a perennial favourite of the small robot builder. It is not hard to make something that will bumble about and follow a line marked out on the floor. the technology can be very simple but the same … Continue reading →

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Sensor alignment

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Peter Harrison

For consistent results, the sensors on a micromouse need to be carefully aligned and then fixed in place. In a perfect world, the emitters would all have the same radiation pattern and would generate the same amount of illumination for … Continue reading →

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Feeling our way with sensors

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Peter Harrison

The sensors are a critical part of a micromouse. Primus uses six infra-red reflective sensors. Here is code to test that they are working.Now that we have a nice display to show what the sensor reading are, we can get … Continue reading →

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Sensor Data Analysis

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Peter Harrison

Micromouse sensors are subject to several sources of error and interference. Capturing a set of data samples lets you do some simple analysis of the effects of those errors.The test rig was set up with a section of wall placed … Continue reading →

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Sensor test

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Peter Harrison

The simple sensor circuit described by Ng Beng Kiat seems to give the best results.On his web site (http://www.np.edu.sg/alpha/nbk/) Beng Kiat describes Min4, one of his recent mice. In there is a PDF with schematics for the mouse. The sensor … Continue reading →

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