1. Proposal Presentation
Micromouse
EE 396
Spring 2009

2. Team Baroque Matthew Menor Shaunty Kleinschmidt Maran Osakoda
Team Leader
Shaunty Kleinschmidt
Profab
Maran Osakoda
Blaise Arita
Fabpro

3. Our Mission
This semester we will be designing, fabricating, and programming a small robotic mouse to make its way to the center of a difficult 16X16 maze
Our mouse will be more accurate and quicker than our last mouse

4. Our Approach Chassis Motors Sensors Batteries Programming
Angled Aluminum
PCB
Motors
2 Unipolar Stepper Motors
Sensors
4 Side Sensors
Batteries
Rechargeable Batteries
Programming
Floodfill

5. Potential Problems Side sensors Rabbit vs PIC Space Allocation Time
Distances
Rabbit vs PIC
Too Much/Not Enough
Space Allocation
Efficiency
Time
Micromouse Competition

6. What we Expect to Learn Hardware Software Soldering PCB
Overall Construction
Software
Flood Fill
Implementing Sensors

7. Deliverable Goals Have a working PCB Side Sensor design
Find the Center
Wallhugger
Floodfill
Take Multiple Paths
Finish before our deadlines
Go to Region 6 Competition

9. Thanks for your time and attention!
Any Questions?