Development of educational autonomous robot using mbed conforming to the rules of robot contest

Abstract

The autonomous robot using mbed conforming to the rules of the robotracer and micromouse contest are developed. The mbed is fast prototyping tool that has developed in recent years, and using mbed is easy to develop for the hardware and software of robots. The robotracer is a kind of line follower robot, which runs along the white line on the black surface with recognizing start/goal and corner marker. The micromouse is a maze solving robot. From the difficulty of both hardware and software, the micromouse using as a teaching material is very few case. The micromouse is used as a teaching tool from the difficulty of both hardware and software is very few case, but the micromouse developed in this study is available as a teaching material.