1. VISION CONTROL MICRO MOUSE MSc Computer Systems Engineering By: Rekapally Mahendranath Supervisor: Dr. Nic Snailum

2. BACKGROUND The project is based on IEE Micro Mouse competition. It is one of the major competitions in computers and electronics that was first started around 1978. The competition is to make a mouse sized robot to navigate through a maze of certain specified dimensions autonomously.

3. MAZE SPECIFICATIONS The micro mouse maze shall comprise 16 x 16 multiples of an 18cm x 18cm unit square. The walls constituting the micro mouse maze shall be 5cm high and 1.2cm thick. Passageways between the walls shall be l6.8cm wide. The side of the micro mouse maze walls shall be white, and the top of the walls shall be red. The floor of the micro mouse maze shall be made of wood and finished with a non-gloss black paint.

4. MOUSE SPECIFICATIONS Micro mouse is subject to the following size constraints -width 25cm, length 25cm. There is no height limit.

5. EXAMPLE OF IEE MICRO MOUSE & MAZE

6. METHODS EMPLOYED TO SOLVE THE COMPETITION IN THE PAST Wall following technique using Ultrasonic sensors. Infrared sensors

7. AIM The aim of project is to solve the IEE Micro Mouse competition using Image Processing techniques. The project is entirely software based using MATLAB v 6.5 to simulate and develop an Image Processing algorithm.

8. ALGORITHM OBJECTIVES Detect whether the robot is centre, right or left aligned in the maze by processing the captured maze images. Detect the turns present in the maze and Detect any wall present acting as a barrier to the robot.