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Efficient rotation of a list in Python By Peter Harrison | April 10, 2020 1 Comment

While working on a Python application to do real time plotting of data, I needed a way to update the data. The data arrives over the serial line and can be received at quite a high rate. easily a few thousand elements per second. The basic idea was to have the data stored in a list. When a new item arrives, the list must be shifted down one place and the new item placed at the end. Clearly, this should happen as quickly as possible.

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2nd International Symposium on Micromouse By Peter Harrison | February 25, 2020 0 Comment
Call for Papers

The 2nd Micromouse Symposium 1st May 2020, Vila Real, Portugal, the 2nd International Symposium on Micromouse, will be held in Vila Real, Portugal, 1st May 2020. Industry experts, researchers and academics are expected to gather together to share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, as well as initiatives related to the Micromouse Robotic Contest. Micromouse Symposium 2020 offers you a conference with wonderful experience in Vila Real.  

Submission of Papers

The working language of the conference is English. Prospective authors are requested to submit full papers (6 pages max) following the guidelines available on the conference website. Accepted papers will be included in Symposium open archive. Each accepted paper should be presented at the conference by one of the authors.  

Submission Schedule:
Submission of Full Papers:March 21, 2020
Acceptance notifications:April 4, 2020
Submission of Paper Final Version:Apr. 15, 2020
Early Bird Registration:April 18, 2020
Micromouse Symposium2020: 1st May 2020

We look forward to welcoming you in Micromouse Symposium 2020 and wish you a fruitful and enjoyable stay in Vila Real, Portugal.

General Chairs
Antonio Valente (Portugal)
Salviano Soares (Portugal)

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Micromouse in Mumbai By Peter Harrison | August 25, 2019 0 Comment

From Abinav Kumar: The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombayis regarded as one of the premier institutes inIndiafor imparting education of one of its kind and to provide resources for the cutting edge technology recognized all over the world.

Techfestis IIT Bombays annual science and technology festival to promote technology, scientific thinking, and innovation and has surpassed 22 golden years of creating an unmatched aura year after year. It is well established asAsias Largest Science and Technology Festivalpatronized byUNESCO, UNICEF, STARTUP INDIA, DIGITAL INDIA, SAYEN and CEE with a footfall more than 175,000 people comprising mainly of the youth from across the nation and an outreach of over 2500 colleges across India and over500 colleges overseas.

Techfest has proved to be a great success in attracting International countries likeAustralia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sweden, France, Brazil, Spain, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladeshas well as fromDenmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Russia, Syria, South Africa, andUAEin previous editions.

We are organizing International Micromouse Competition which will be held during 3rd-5th January, 2020. The totalprize moneyof International Round isINR 175,000.

Below are some of the resources of Techfest, IIT Bombay which shall give you a clear picture of the festival.

Lookback Brochure: Techfest Lookback Brochure
Problem Statement: International Micromouse Competition
Techfest Aftermovie: AftermovieTechfest Facebook Page

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Micromouse contest in Egypt an invitation By Peter Harrison | August 24, 2019 0 Comment

From Mohamed Orabi : We are organizing a new micromouse competition during the IEEE Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy, that will be hold during Oct. 23-25, 2019 in Aswan, Egypt
www.ieee-cpere.org

We would like to invite teams from world wide to participate. To encourage team, The conference will provide each team with free registrations and accommodation for two members.
Please share this information
Conference Chair

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Time taken to run a straight By Peter Harrison | June 29, 2019 0 Comment
Calculating the time needed to run a straight between two turns in the micromouse contest

When a micromouse robot is trying to determine the best path from start to goal, it is helpful to be able to calculate the amount of time it will take to run along the straight path that connects two turns. This is not an obviously simple calculation because there is the question of how fast the robot is travelling at the start and end of the straight, the available acceleration and the maximum speed limit.

Some simplifying assumptions will help a lot. First, assume that the start and end speed for the straight is the same That is, all turns are made at the same speed. Second, assume that the robot is always either accelerating or decelerating. That is, there is no top speed limit. For many actual straight section in the maze, that is likely to be the case. Finally, assume that the acceleration and deceleration is the same so that the straight run is symmetrical.

Orthogonal moves

The classical equations of motion give an expression for the time taken to move by a distance, , if the acceleration, , and start speed, , are known (suvat-rearranged)

(1)

Considering orthogonal moves first, the distance, , can be expressed as some multiple, , of the length of one cell, .

(2)

Substitute into (1) to get:

(3)

It is now convenient to specify the start speed, , as some constant, , times the distance through one cell.

and the acceleration, , as

For example, for , a classic micromouse might be able to turn at 1800mm/s and accelerate at 18,000 mm/s/s.

Substituting into (2):

(4)

)

(6)

Equation 6 describes the time taken to accelerate to some top speed over cells. The micromouse robot will accelerate for half that number of cells and then brake for the remaining half. Split the motion into two parts:

(7)

This result is easily pre-calculated in a table of for suitable values of and so it will be easy to determine the time needed to run any straight or arbitrary length with a simple multiply. Note that this only works because of the common factor, , in the speed and acceleration.

Diagonals

For diagonal movements, each cell traversed is mm long and so the time is calculated from:

(8)

Note that you cannot simply multiply the result from equation (7) by .

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UK Micromouse at Techfest 2019 By Peter Harrison | June 3, 2019 0 Comment

The UK Micromouse contest took place on Jun 1st at the Techfest 2019 event. I am happy to report that, from a personal perspective, it was almost entirely without drama.

[update: full results are here: https://ukmars.org/index.php/TechFest_2019 ]

There was a worrisome moment when the program would not build on the new laptop but that was just unfamiliarity with the process having done it differently for a good few years.

The maze had quite a long path I took the magenta route which was a little over 14m long.

UK Micromouse 2019 final maze.

And my final time was 6.37 seconds an average of about 2.2m/s. It felt like it should have been quicker but there were no long straights. The top speed reached was only3.9 m/s.

The first speed run took about 8.2 seconds I dont have the detailed timing data yet. The last run was performed at the maximum available speed setting and there were no visible errors. The penultimate run clipped a post. I heard it but saw no sign of disturbance.

There were 33 turns and 17 straights in the path. The search took a while and the battery voltage was down to 7.5 Volts at the start of the first fast run and just 7.14 Volts at the start of the last fast run. That will have limited the top speed a little.

We did not have a huge entry list this year but here are the fastest times:

UK Micromouse 2019 final times.
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Schools Micromouse at Techfest 2019 By Peter Harrison | June 2, 2019 0 Comment

OnSaturday 1st June the 2019 National Schools and Colleges MicromouseCompetition was held by the UKMARS organisation and hosted by Birmingham CityUniversity as part of the annual City Centre Campus TechFest event.

Asusual three events were run: The Drag Race – a 6 metre sprint following a whiteline; the Line Follower – a circuit of straights and curves of varying radii,again following a white line and the Wall Follower – finding a route from thestart cell to a target cell in a maze by following the left-hand wall.

Atotal of 20 mice were entered. Many ofthem were capable of, with a change of sensors and wheels, competing in allthree events. There were kit mice and scratch built mice on show. The lightest weighed 97 grams and theheaviest 330 grams.

Newto the competition this year were Kesgrave High School, Ipswich who had beenworking on their designs since October 2018.They are an after-school club formed by retired teachers Simon Clapsonand John Fisher, both stalwarts of Micromouse who previously enjoyed greatsuccess in this competition with their former school. Schools are desperately keen to get STEMambassadors to run robotics clubs but are generally very inflexible regardingusing school computers to run suitable programming software. John and Simonwere very limited in the choice of microprocessor for their students’ robots andhad to abandon their tried and tested Picaxe programs, eventually settling forCrumble, an icon based software system similar to Scratch.

Severalclubs and schools from Buckinghamshire were again represented and there was oneentry from a primary school pupil, Maxwell Bayliss from Pershore Junior. Unusually there were four entrants who wereveterans of the 2018 competition making a return appearance: KaviyashreeDamodaran, Nathesa Sivakumaran, Lahari Ballina and Bethan Edwards.

BethanEdwards was the stand-out performer on the day.Her mouse “Jerry” came first in the Line Follower (beating her brotherOwain into second place by 0.05 seconds), second in the Wall Follower and thirdin the Drag Race.

Medalswere on offer for any competitor who completed a successful timed run in eachof the three events. There were alsotrophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed mice in eachevent. Grateful thanks are due to DuncanLouttit of Swallow Systems who donated all the Schools awards and was ChiefJudge on the day. Thanks are also due toChris Evans and the BCU team and Ian Butterworth, Chairman of UKMARS forproviding us with excellent facilities.Last, but by no means least, we would like to thank the parents andteachers who supported the competitors and saw their charges fully focused andhighly competitive perhaps for the first time.

Summaryof Results

LightestMouse: 97.12g “Jerry”, Bethan Edwards,Wycombe Warriors.

BestRecorded Mouse: “Thanos”, Lekha Ballina, Wycombe High School.

JudgesAward: “Wally”, Kyle Baker, Kesgrave High School, Ipswich.

Kylewrote the program for his mouse in just three after school sessions. His entry completed the wall follower eventsuccessfully – an outstanding achievement.

DRAGRACE

1stPlace: “Sivan”, Nathesa Sivakumaran, Beaconsfield High. (2.304s)

2ndPlace: “Mozzarella”, Kaviyashree Damodaran, Beaconsfield High. (2.419s)

3rdPlace: “Jerry”, Bethan Edwards, Wycombe Warriors. (2.462s)

LINEFOLLOWER

1stPlace: “Jerry”, Bethan Edwards, Wycombe Warriors. (10.411s)

2ndPlace: “Idea”, Owain Edwards, Wycombe Warriors. (10.461s)

3rdPlace: “Sivan”, Nathesa Sivakumaran, Beaconsfield High. (10.798s)

WALLFOLLOWER

1stPlace: “Human Being”, Abigail Robinson, Wycombe High School. (34.06s)

2ndPlace: “Jerry”, Bethan Edwards, Wycombe Warriors. (34.50s)

3rdPlace: “Maze Finder”, Maanya Shankar, Wycombe High School. (34.85s)

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Techfest 2019 Programme By Peter Harrison | May 18, 2019 0 Comment
Register now at http://registration.ukmars.org/
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Register now for Techfest 2019 By Peter Harrison | May 7, 2019 0 Comment

Techfest 2019, held on Saturday June 1st at Millennium Point, Birmingham is the UKMARS main event of the year and includes the UK micromouse contest as well as a host of other contests.

Registrations now open at: http://registration.ukmars.org

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UK contest rules change By Peter Harrison | April 21, 2019 0 Comment

At the 2019 Minos conference in April, the UK Micromouse and Robotics Society (UKMARS) agreed revisions to the rules governing its contests. Many of these changes were minor, to reflect the common practice that has been observed for several years. Some were more significant and are intended to bring the event up to date.

The most significant changes are for the UK Micromouse contest. This affects both the full size (classic) contest and the half-size contest. For these, UKMARS have decided to adopt a translation of the current Japanese rules for these events. There are minor changes to some details but, for practical purposes, the scoring for both contests is the same. There will no longer be a search penalty and the scoring is based only on the fastest run of each robot.

You can see all the current rule sets here:

https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Micromouse_Classic_Rules
https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Micromouse_Half_Size_Rules
https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Line_Follower_Rules
https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Drag_Race_Rules
https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Time_Trials_Rules
https://ukmars.org/index.php/UK_Wall_Follower_Rules


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