The first half of November didn’t contain many large or eventful milestones. The majority of the time as a group was spent finishing up the IR prototype circuit with both receivers included, and designing the corresponding PCB in “Proteus”.
Personally, I spent most of my time doing lots of research into the concept of PID controllers – which is a closed loop control mechanism used to accurately control the motor speed – and testing/troubleshooting my own software implementations of PID control in the program.
The sample software features a version of PID control already, but I wanted to fully understand the concept and be able to implement my own design. It is important to me that I’m able to fully understand the inner workings of the program, as this enables me to make the program more complex and include additional features.
For the team, the remainder of this month will be spent soldering the fabricated PCB and assembling the device, as well as developing the final program that will enable the newly assembled Micromouse to independently obstacle avoid.
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