- What is the Micromouse Competition?
The Micromouse Competition is a robotics contest where small autonomous robots (also known as “micromice”) navigate a maze from a starting point, usually a corner, into a center target zone.
The robot must do everything autonomously: mapping the maze, detecting walls, figuring out where it is, planning an optimal path, then running that path at a efficient pace.
- How Does it Work: Some Typical Rules Involved
1. Starting corner: the robot begins at a predetermined start square (often a corner).
2. Exploration phase: the robot explores the maze, learning walls and mapping.
3. Optimal run: Once it knows the maze, the robot runs the best path it found (fastest possible) to the goal zone.
4. Time counts: The winner is the one whose robot reaches the target (center or maze) in the shortest time in its fastest valid run.