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In article <620@eneevax.UUCP> daveb@eneevax.UUCP (David Bengtson) writes:
>
>  IEEE sponsors a 'micromouse ' competition every year or so. The entries
>are generally from groups of people - IEEE student branches - generally
>We ( UM Student Branch ) are thinking of putting one together this year.
>kits of hardware seem to be availible, The prob seems to be in coming up
>with an intelligent algorithm to get through the maze.
                                      ^^^^^^^
Are you really getting through the maze?  You don't need any intelligent
algorithm, just follow the right side all the time.  Here in Europe
goal is at the center of maze, so you HAVE TO make an intelligent algorithm
to solve it.  Students of Tampere University of Technology have built
several "micromice", I've worked with three of them, mostly programming.
Maze solving algoritm is quite simple, difficulties raise when you
speed up the mouse. (It tries to get out of maze through walls...)

Somebody told three weels are better than four because they are all
tightly on the floor.  No they are not.  On turnings (on good speed,
of course) one wheel will be lifted off the floor.  Three weels are better,
because mouse with three weels is easier to build and drive.

Micromouse World Contest will be in London 7 of July.
-- 
Hannu-Matti Jarvinen
ASENTO - Ada Software ENgineering TOols -project
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
hmj@tut.uucp, hmj@tut.funet (Note that tut.ARPA is not the same computer).