Developing Manual Control for a Line Follower （发展中手动控制追随者）.pdf

Advance in Electronic and Electric Engineering. ISSN 2231-1297, Volume 3, Number 3 (2013), pp. 305-310 © Research India Publications /aeee.htm Developing Manual Control for a Line Follower Robot 1 2 3 Lucky Gautam , Rahul Kr. Verma , Chinoy Sharma 1,3Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering 2Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Amity University, Noida, India. Abstract In this technologically advancing world the field of robotics has boomed to a great extent. There are new implications done in different kind of robots every second in the world. Navigation tools are required to give senses to robot and there are wide ranges of navigation tools available. This paper will focus upon improvising and removing limitations of a black line following robot by giving it a manual control when required. A practical implication of this has been verified by doing a small experiment by constructing a black line following robot using IR sensors and providing it a manual control. Keywords: IR sensors, DPDT switch, Encoder, Decoder, adaptive programming. 1. Introduction A line following robot is a basic robot designed to follow a predetermined line or path. Construction of this line varies from as simple as black line on the floor or as complex as embedded lines, magnetic lines etc. In order to detect or trace the path, different kind of navigation schemes or vision schemes are employed. These navigation schemes may vary from as simple and cheap as IR sensors circuits to as complex and