Autonomous robot built to locate and extinguish flames in a maze. All-time record setter for Maze 1 & 2 at Laurel Heights Secondary School.
This project was completed as part of the TEJ4MI course at Laurel Heights Secondary School, taught by Mr. Webb, whose dedication and passion for teaching hands-on engineering education made this project possible.
Our robot holds the record times for both mazes in the course:
- 🔥 Maze 1 Record - 2.20 sec (previously 4.52 sec): Watch on YouTube
- 🔥 Maze 2 Record - 3.63 sec (previously 19 sec): Watch on YouTube
The challenge: build an autonomous robot capable of navigating a maze, identifying a flame in any of four rooms, and extinguishing it.
- The bot starts from a designated position in the maze.
- It must navigate the maze with no human interference.
- All robots must fit in a bounding box with a base of 31 cm x 31 cm and a height of 27 cm.
- The bot cannot touch the candle or its base during the run.
- The bot cannot use any destructive or dangerous methods to put out the candle.
- It must come within 30 cm of the candle before it extinguishes the flame.
- The bot must solve all rooms with the same code and same initial conditions; you must scan and extinguish candles in rooms 1-3 before extinguishing room 4
A successful run is timed based on when the flame in Room 4 is extinguished, provided the bot would have stopped for any flame in earlier rooms. Runs were timed with frame-by-frame analysis. Time starts on the first frame your bot's LCD/LED lights up and ends when the candle is extinguished.