Thursday, August 11, 2011

e-puck solving a maze

As a result from Rene's and Kevin's work, we can show a maze-solving application for an e-puck. The approach has been implemented on real hardware and tested in a simulation using Webots. To solve the task, different sensors of the e-puck (IR-Light Sensor, Distance Sensor, ...) have been combined, so that the e-puck could solve this maze. The robot follows the right wall, until he finds its goal (a dark sector in the maze) - then the LEDs are blinking and it makes a sound, so you notice, it has finished.


As you can see in the video, the approach works (though the robot is moving a bit slowly); also the simulation predicts very similar results.