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This project presents a small mobile robot that tracks a colored object, avoids obstacles, and wanders to explore its surroundings.  Our presentation includes a video documenting the design and development process, along with a live demonstration of the the robot. 

Autonomous robots are becoming increasingly more common in modern society, and this project focuses on understanding how they sense their surroundings and react in real time. We built an autonomous robot on a small motorized chassis, which uses a Pixy2 camera, and infrared (IR) sensors, to gather information, while employing multiple amplifier circuits to condition the signals and send them to an Arduino microcontroller. The Arduino decides how the robot should move so it can wander about looking for a particular colored object and then follow it while avoiding obstacles. 

The project demonstrates how sensing and control work together to create basic autonomous behavior comprising smooth tracking and reliable obstacle avoidance.