Mechatronics

The Maze Robot

The purpose of the project

This project was realized within the mechatronics course given by Prof. Dr. Ir. Bram Vanderborght. For the practical course the students are asked to make a project for which the combination of mechanics and electronics is actually carried out. This means that a small mechanism controlled by a micro-controller unit has to be build.

For the practical course the students are asked to make a project for which the combination of mechanics and electronics is actually carried out. This means that a small mechanism controlled by a micro-controller unit has to be build.

These assignments enclose three major parts. Firstly the students have to design and build their mechanical set-up, secondly they have to create the electronic link between the micro-controller and this this set-up which mainly implies of signal conditioning, amplification and buffering. And the thirth part consists of programming the micro-controller in Arduino, an open source language quiet similar to C++, where the main goal is to get used to different possibilities of such a device and learn about the basics of a computer control unit.

As a final result the students are asked to create a website about their project explaining in detail problems and solutions. These sites can be visited through links given in "Finished Projects"