SimBot at NIT Trichy

SimBot is a competition for Line Follower robot. The rule is that we must build a line follower robot that must have the obstacle detection mechanism. The obstacle will be a white box of specified height and width. There will be three parallel tracks, the line follower must begin from one end that we can choose. If the Line Follower faces any white obstacles on its way then it should take the parallel path. The below picture shows three parallel tracks with obstacles.


The robot which reaches the finish line first wins the game. We used DC motors with 150 RPM but those who came for the competition used 300 RPM twice the speed of us, so we lost in timing but anyway we had a good experience out there. I couldn't take a video at the time of the race but here is the sample video where our line follower tracks the line.