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Do you know the rules of the micromouse races? In all the videos I see, the mouse appears to go directly from start to finish without any maze finding going on.
by codezero 12y ago
Do you know the rules of the micromouse races? In all the videos I see, the mouse appears to go directly from start to finish without any maze finding going on.
My best guess is that they get earlier runs to "learn" the maze, then go for a speed run, is that right?
- fryguy 12y agoYes, there is a learning phase and a timed run.
- codezero 12y agoI am guessing the learning phase plays into the score somehow, otherwise they may as well be pre-programmed, right? It seems unlikely there are mice that would be unable to figure out the mazes at this point.
- artursapek 12y agoIt looks like there's something of an art to how they handle corners and diagonals. At sub 10 second run times I think the agility is really the hard part of the programming, not the actual maze solving algorithm.
- dalek2point3 12y agoyeah, here is the relevant paragraph from the Wikipedia entry: >The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, map out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal, the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze until it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in the shortest possible time. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse