Hey guys,
Hope y’all doing well, I’m working on a project for school. It’s a maze solver which should have the ability to detect a small object and pick it or scoop it up (placed randomly in the maze). I have previously worked on a object detection arduino bot. So I assume the maze solving part would be easy . But I’m not sure on how to work on the object pickup and return to home part.
how should I tackle this projects are there any resources that would help me .
Thank you in advance.
What small object? What is it? What are the dimensions of the maze and it's components?
Hey aarg,
The object to pick up is a sample of kinetic sand in a petri dish (which would be placed in a random location of the maze). The maze is a simple two-level maze with an incline and decline with dimensions roughly around 25-30cm in width.
A petri dish wouldn't be that easy to grab - I'll leave that for a mech expert.
I'd start with a maze solver (less easy than you think I suspect) and worry about grabbing the sample when you've got that working.
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Does the maze exist at this time? Take a few pictures that show some details about it. Put something in the pictures so we can figure out the dimensions, like a ruler or a quarter, ya know.
If the maze doesn't exist yet, share what you are told it will consist in.
What does the maze solving vehicle have for motors, wheels, steering and sensors? Are these constraints of the assignment?
Share the wording of the assignment and list the parts that are I your parts bag.
a7
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yes it exists, but I couldn't take any photos, but I have the measurements, and the maze has 2 levels with an incline angle of 12.5-15.5degrees with a width ranging from 17.5 to 19.5 and the maze seems to be more of a labyrinth-style (with dead ends) so I would assume my robot would need code to follow a specific path.
First mention of a robot. I assumed an arm or traverse. What robot do you have?
I have a regular amazon kit . but I'm free to use any available kits. Furthermore for picking up the kinetic sand I was planning to buy the 6-axis arm kit from amazon and modify the grabbing mechanism to a scooping mechanism.
A "regular Amazon" kit? Amazon now offers standard robots? 
parts I have for now :
ELEGOO UNO Project Super Starter Kit and I got a kit similar to : Freenove 4WD Car Kit from my school.
but I do not mind buying extra parts
I woukd assume your robot needs to know how to solve a maze.
Rats are somewhat smarter, but solving a maze is well within the capabilities of a computer programmed by a human.
a7
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