Mobile Robot (Structure, Sensor Unit and Motor Drive)

A Mobile Robot is developed to detect and avoid obstacles during its navigation from
one point to another point. The Mobile Robot system is composed of 5 (five) main
parts, which is structure / mechanical part, to do the mechanical part of the robot; sensor
unit part, to detect and send the received signal to the controller part; motor drive part,
to navigate the robot; controller part, acts as a brain of the robot to control all action
taken by the robot; and power supply part, which is used to power up the entire system
of the robot. This project has been assigned to two students so that the scope of works
can be divided into hardware and software implementation. This report will concentrate
on the hardware implementation part including all the circuits used for the system of the
robot. The methods used in this project are literature review, research via the internet
and books, simulation by using certain software and testing the robot system. The
model then is built and its motive is to find its own path and avoid collision in the
designed maze.