Precision Robot Navigation

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Precision Robot Navigation

• Configuring a PS2 optical mouse to interface with
  a BASIC Stamp 2 microcontroller

Summer 2004
Our Robot
Researchers Calley Levine and Ali
Moussawi Mentor Professor Vikram Kapila Teaching
Assistant Mr. Mishah Salman
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Our Project

• The precision navigation robot was created in
  order to provide a cheap and practical method for
  determining the position of a robot.
• This was done using a PS/2 optical mouse and
• the BASIC Stamp 2 (BS2) microcontroller
• Difficulty Interfacing communication between the
  mouse and the BS2
• Many attempts were made to write a program which
  would successfully enable the communication
  simply said, we failed
• Factors timing, power, and data transfer
• Instead, the PAK-Via pic was used and its
  displacement readings were then applied in order
  to restrict the movement of the robot to an area
  inscribed by specified parameters (i.e. a room)

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What We Learned

• Circuitry (basics use of transistors
  integration of sensors, processors, actuators,
  etc.)
• Computer programming using PBASIC language
• Responsibilities of employment the work wasnt
  too bad
• Managing time and keeping to deadlines is
  extremely important
• (AIM, Minesweeper, and Microsoft Paint are
  destructive forces!!!)