I am a student of Mechatronics Engineering. I’m in 3rd year now.This year i have to make a line following robot without ardino. Only we can use Pic microcontrollers. Can you help me for the task…… !!!
Hi,
Your first step should be to determine your requirements for your robot, i.e.: what kind of sensors do you need, what kind of motors and controller, etc.
If you need more help in building a robotic platform, we recommend that you read our How To Make a Robot lessons. They cover the basics of choosing parts and building a robot.
Once you have your platform designed and ready, you should determine your code structure and implement it on your PIC microcontroller. We recommend that you perform an online search on this. You should be able to find plenty of line following robot tutorial in many languages and for many microcontrollers.
Sincerely,
Ok sir i bought servo motors, resistors, pic microcontroller, ir sensors etc. What can i use for power to the robot? i’ll programming my program part now. If i had a dout then i’ll ask from you. Thank you very much…
The two main ways you could consider for powering your robot would be tethering and batteries. Depending on your project requirements, tethering may not be an option at all.
Lets assume you want / have to use batteries (safe bet and it makes it easier for the robot to move around)! You now have a few different options to power the robot.
Since you will be making a line follower, speed & power wont be a big concern (unlike sumo bots, for example) so you could power your robot from pretty much any battery that provides enough voltage, usually at least 6 V DC.
The simplest option is to add to your robot a simple AA battery pack holder to power the robot. You can find the required parts in our standard/rechargeable batteries section. A second option would be to use a NiMH battery pack. They tend to provide a lot more charge than the regular AA batteries but will also be bulkier and heavier and require a special charging device to recharge (like this one). We have other battery types (this & this), but we don’t recommend those for your case since they require a more complex charging circuit.
If you need more complete details about how to go about building robots, we recommend that you have a look at our catalog of books about robotics. Specifically, The Robot Builder’s Bonanza 4th Edition is a great book for getting started and is very complete.
Thank you sir for your details. Some times i failure for buy some equipments for my robot. Because our university give us a project budget must be below 70$.
Good luck with your project!
When it is completed, we recommend you to post about it here. We are certain the RobotShop community would be interested in learning more about your project, its implementation and the results.
Sincerely,
Thank you Admin !!