Building a Micromouse
Michael Todd, Steven Sanchez, Marcus Leslie, Michael Williams
GS1140 A. Carpe
7/27/15

We have chosen IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) to sponsor our micromouse. IEEE was founded in 1980 and its headquarters is in Piscataway, New Jersey. IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. The membership cost for IEEE is 32 dollars per year for students and 193 dollars per year for members. As a group we chose to join the IEEE because it is an organization that specializes in our field of study. IEEE will grant 250 dollars to the first ten teams of up to five people. Only one team from each school is eligible to receive the grant for the production of a micromouse for the tournament. If you do not participate in the competition it will void your grant. Each micromouse team has from 3-5 people.
Each team must make a self-contained small robot and it must negotiate a maze in the shortest possible time. The maze is multiples of 18x18 cm squares. Walls are 5 cm high and 1.2 cm thick. Sides of the walls are white, the tops are red, and the floor is black. The start is located at one of the four corners and is bounded on three sides by walls. The finish is the four centrally located squares and only has one entrance. A micromouse may not fly over, climb, or damage any of the walls in the maze. The micromouse cannot leave any parts behind in the maze. The mouse cannot exceed a length or width of 25cm. there is no limit to the height of a micromouse. Our maze is built to the standard of walls that are 1.2 mm thick. Our longest pathway without obstruction is approximately 198cm long. The entirety of the maze is enclosed and it is the maximum of 2.8 m wide and long. There are two voids in our maze. Our robots dimensions are 82 x 125 x 60mm. It has two wheels nearly