Light Rover - Light Sensing Robot

Abstract:
Light Rover is a robot that can sense and follow light. A user can shine a flashlight at its front and Light Rover will respond by following the light source. Light Rover uses a microcontroller for processing the sensor readings and responds by controlling the motors. The robot is designed with two sensors in mind, a left and a right. So when more light is detected on the left side, the robot will move towards it by rotating the right motor forward and the left motor backwards. The robot will know to move forward when both sensors receive about the same (by a margin we specify) amount of light. The robot has two bipolar motors attached to front wheels of the robot. While rear wheels do not have any motor attached to them. The robot has two sensors fixed at its front panel separated by sufficient distance. It has a 9 V battery supply & microcontroller circuitry placed inside the Light Rover. We wanted to build a sensing light robot because microcontrollers are natural devices for sensing and responding to events. We felt that building a device able to react to its environment would be an excellent learning experience.

Block Diagram:
LEFT MOTOR MICRO CONTROLLER RIGHT SENSOR RIGHT MOTOR

LEFT Sensor

POWER SUPPLY

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Scope:
In this Light Rover Light Sensing Robot Project, there is scope of learning Designing H-bride to motors, interfacing sensors to the circuit and analog to Digital conversion, you can also learn KICAD software for designing for the hardware.

Software:
1) MICROCONTROLLER GCC IDE 2) KICAD

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