Micromouse Challenge at ChchRobotics

The truth is that we don't have any functioning micromouse robots at the moment. Nevertheless a number of us in Christchurch are keen, and once we have one functioning mouse more will surely breed. We have a portion of maze which is handy for testing designs. I'll bring this along to each session, and when the need arises we'll see about procuring enough maze to run a New Zealand competition. (Any suggestions about how to buy, borrow or make a maze would be welcome). With no robots to compete against each other here are the challenges that we can run for individual mice learning their way towards maze solving.

1. Fastest lap time around an arbitrary sized maze rectangle.

2. Wall following to the centre of a simply connected maze.

3. Random maze exploration.

4. Full Maze solving.

Details of the micromouse competition rules, design ideas and alogorithms are widely available on the Internet. See our Links and Pictures sections.