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The Learning Line Follower
Mar 1 2020
Be warned, this tale is a tragedy. For Christmas, my father bought me an Arduino robot kit with 4 wheels some eyes and ears. It came with light (and sonar) sensors. I decided to conduct supervised learning with a Markov chain model. Two front light sensor point vertically down, reading the grounds ability to reflect infrared light. The kit came with black tape to lay on the floor. I aimed to teach the robot to follow the line, programming it to remember 1KB: a weighted guess at a set of movements given the last two things it saw (input reads).
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