Mohammad

Micromouse is an event where small robot mice solve a 16×16 maze. The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, map out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal, the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze until it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in the shortest possible time.

Solving Mazes using Floodfill Algorithm:

IEEE Micromouse Competition, April 2010:

Micromouse Maze Editor & Simulator:

The current demo of the simulator can be accessed from here: http://micromouse.reefat.com/simulator/

I was working for last couple of months to build one like this, and finally came up with the the following:

Ardumouse v.1

Ardumouse v.2

Ardumouse v.3 (Final Version)

I’ve been programming it to follow right wall and it worked perfectly:

Ardumouse: Arduino Micromouse – Right Wall Follower
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Here’s another video that shows how the micromouse sends debug information to a remote computer through wireless:

Ardumouse: Arduino Micromouse – Wireless Debugger
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And this the birth place of the micromouse, my bedroom. Don’t mind, it’s a little messy: