MAZE ROBOT: APPLYING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE NAVIGATION ALGORITHM WITH EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING

Autonomous navigation is an eminent feature in robotics as it provides mobile robot
with the ability to traverse from one point to another point while avoiding any
obstacles that lie within its path. To navigate through a maze with unpredictable
routes would be a great challenge as it requires the assistance of an intelligent
algorithm. The main objective of this project is to build and program a mini mobile
robot that is able to autonomously navigate through a physical maze. The physical
maze will comprise of several different configurations to measure the efficiency of
the robot. Hardware and software co-design method is used to construct the mobile
robot. The basic navigation algorithm was developed using finite state machine
(FSM). Event-driven programming method was applied in producing the maze
navigation algorithm for the robot.