The problem to be solved is a maze navigation problem
-- you are given a maze and a starting point and a final destination point on
the maze. The task to design and build a fully autonomous Robot, with no human
intervention, that will go from the starting point to the destination, “learn”
the maze, and then make its way back without making a wrong decision.
The maze is specified as a grid of cells, with floor
colors indicating if the cell is a corner or decision point or start/goal
cells. The robot must be built using the Lego NXT platform and can use up to
three types of sensors – an ultrasonic (distance) sensor, tactile (touch)
sensor, and an optical sensor. Using these different sensors, the robot must
The objectives of this
exercise are: learn to work in teams, build a fully autonomous Robot by
integrating modules you developed earlier, integration of information from
multiple sources (i.e., use multiple sensors), and developing and analyzing
alternate solutions to a problem.