Micromouse-Microcontroller based Robot-

The mouse is essentially composed of three main components: the drive, sensing and control sections. It has its own power supply, usually consisting of primary or rechargeable batteries. The mouse should not be larger, either in length or width, than 25 centimeters. There is no restriction on the height.The maze shall be a 16 x 16 square array of 180 mm x 180 mm unit squares. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, maps out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze untl it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in shortest possible time. Mice can use various searching algorithms.