Line Follower Robot
What is line follower:
Line follower robot is an autonomous machine that can follow a path. The path can be seen like a white line on a black surface (or vice-versa) or it can be invisible as magnetic field.
Requirement of line follower robot:
Sensing a line and maneuvering the robot to stay on path, while constantly correcting wrong moves by using feedback mechanism forms a simple and effective closed loop system. As a programmer we get an opportunity to ?teach? the robot how to follow the line therefore it gives robot human like property of responding to stimuli.
Consider the practical application of line follower robot is:
- Guidance system for industrial robots moving on shop floor
- Automated cars running on road with embedded magnet.
Hardware Required:
- 12V, 1A DC Adapter-1 piece
- Analog IR Sensor-3 piece
- AVR Microcontroller Board-1 piece
- DC Motor Driver-1 piece
- AVR USB Programmer-1 piece
- 1 to 1 Connector-15 piece
- 10 to 10 FRC Female Connector-2 piece
- Robot-1 piece
Software Required:
- BASCOM-AVR Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- AVRDUDE-GUI
- WinAVR-2010
- USBasp Driver
Block Diagram:
Algorithm:
- R=rightmost sensor which reads 0, L=leftmost sensor which reads 0. If no sensor on right (or Left) is 0 than L (or R) equals to 0.
- If all sensor read 1 then go to step 3,
- Move anticlockwise if line was last seen on Left, Move clockwise if line was last seen on Right. Repeat step 3 till line is found.
Else,
If L<R Move Right
If L>R Move Left
If L=R Move Forward
Circuit Diagram:
Consider the eagle software based schematic circuit of line follower robot is:-
Source Code:
Consider the screenshot of source code used in Line Follower robot using BASCOM-AVR Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is:-
