A rudimentary autonomously guided robot called a “Line Follower Robot” (LFR) follows a line written on the ground to either find a white line on a dark surface or a dark line on a white surface. Working on the LFR is quite interesting. We discover how to construct a black line follower robot in this study utilizing an Arduino Uno and a few readily available parts.

Arduino Uno, path following, avoiding obstacle, mobile robot.

Received: May 1, 2023; Accepted: June 28, 2023; Published: August 11, 2023

How to cite this article: Muhammad Ahmad Baballe, Abdu Ibrahim Adamu, Abdulkadir Shehu Bari and Amina Ibrahim, Principle operation of a line follower robot, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications 27 (2023), 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17654/0973700623001

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