Line-Following Robot — IIT Bombay
A line-following robot prepared for and run at the Single Line Robotics Championship held at IIT Bombay — sensor array, control tuning and track testing under competition rules.
Completed: Built, finished and working.
Placeholder artwork. Project photography, screenshots and video are pending — see the asset checklist in the repository.
Objective
Compete in the Single Line Robotics Championship at IIT Bombay: follow a marked line accurately and quickly, without leaving the track.
Approach
An infrared sensor array reads the line position; the controller converts that error into differential motor speeds. Most of the work was in tuning — balancing speed against stability on tight curves.
- Sensor array calibration for track surface and lighting
- Error-to-steering control loop with tuned gains
- Speed-versus-stability trade-off testing on practice tracks
Outcome
Participated in the championship at IIT Bombay. The experience of testing against other teams under time pressure directly shaped how later robots were designed and tested.
Possible future improvements
Status: ConceptNone of the items below have been built. They are recorded here as direction, not capability.
- Encoder feedback for consistent speed across surfaces
- Adaptive gain tuning based on measured curvature