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Line Follower Lab

PID Struggles

11/06/25

For this project, we were given a light sensor and the task of making a robot that could follow a black line. Although we could've easily used a simple if else system for our code, we decided to implement a PID controller to challenge ourselves. It was definitely a struggle to get the PID controller working properly as it took us 3 days to tune the robot. In the end we were middle of the pack in terms of speed but had the smoothest robot in the class. Click the link below to see the lab report.

What I learned: How to work with a PID controller