IEEE Micromouse (FA20)

Micromouse
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Welcome to Micromouse!
The IEEE Micromouse DeCal is aimed at students with a strong interest in robotics, who want to pursue a hardware project but may not have the resources to do so on their own. The course will be taught in the context of IEEE’s Micromouse competition, in which students form teams of 2-3 to navigate a 16x16 maze. By the end of the semester, students will be able to build an autonomous, maze-solving robot with minimal assistance, using skills that are extendable to real-world robotics problems. Special focus is given to topics including electrical and firmware engineering, brushed motors, sensing, pathfinding, and control theory. This course fits in with other courses in the department like EE16B.

Semester: Fall 2020
Time/Location: Remote
Units: 1

Syllabus

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Instructors

Ethan Mehta
ethanbmehta@berkeley.edu

Matthew Tran
matthewlamtran@berkeley.edu

David Cheng
david_cheng@berkeley.edu

Julian Meyn
meyn@berkeley.edu

Office Hours

TBD. If you want to talk with a staff member, email or message us on Discord to setup a meeting!
Notices
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Timeline
Week
Title
Content
Slides
Lab
Video
1
9/21
What Is Micromouse?
• Tournament video, rules
• Course logistics, questions
2
9/28
Lab 1: Arduino Basics
• Team matching/signups
• High-level overview of schematic
3
10/5
Lab 2: Encoders
• Finally we interact with the real world!
• Hall Effect Sensors
• Polling, Interrupts
4
10/12
Lab 3: ToF Sensors
• More Sensor Communication!
• ToF (Time of Flight) Distance Sensors
• I2C
5
10/19
Lab 4: Odometry
• Linear and angular velocity
• Differential Drive
6
10/26
Lab 5: Motors and PID
• Motors!
• Intro to PID
7
11/2
Lab 5: More PID
• Continuation from Last Week
• The 'P' in PID
TBD
8
11/9
Lab 6: Motors and PID
9
11/16
Wall Following
TBD
10
11/23
Wall Following
TBD
11
11/30
Final Overview and Tournament
TBD