Robert Ross
Engineering Projects - Line Following Robot
"A nice simple robot which follows around a line on the floor"
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Engineering Projects - Line Following Robot"A nice simple robot which follows around a line on the floor"
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Believe it or not this took about a weekend to build (from tid-bits of time stretched over a month). Basically some IR LED's reflect off the surface and the reflection is measured by the photo-diodes. Base on this measurement we can determine where the robot is with respect to the line and program it to follow the line about. Software wise it uses a PID control algorithm - with currently only the 'P' part programmed in. |
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Line follower photos and video |
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| Revision 2 - PCB | Revision 2 with sensors temporarily taped into place with electrical tape | Revision 1 - Close-up of populated PCB |
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| The base is just an old CD. The sensor holder is part of an antistatic container for T0-220 package FETs | Completed Revision 2 | Completed Revision 2 - back view |
| The video! | ||
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