![]() It is also a testament to the power of open-source technology and the maker community, which have made it possible for anyone to build their Rubik's Cube solver robot. The CUBOTtino Micro is an excellent example of how technology can be used to solve complex problems in our daily lives. The CUBOTtino Micro is fully autonomous and has a display to provide feedback on the solving progress. The cube solver bot uses the Kociemba solver to get an almost optimal solution. The robot uses around ten 3D printer parts and two small servo motors apart from the electronics. It can solve a 30mm Rubik’s Cube in less than 70 Seconds. The CUBOTtino Micro uses a Pi Camera and Raspberry Pi Zero for the computer vision. The CUBOTtino Micro is a successor of his previous generation Rubik’s Cube solver robot CUBTtino. By storing the cube states in a hash table, we have created a simple lookup table to know which state has the least amount of moves to be solved.A creator named Andrea Favero, from Netherlands has created the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube solver robot – The CUBOTtino Micro. Here we’re going to store the different states of the cube and the number of moves it took to get there from the solved cube in a hash table. The first thing will need to do is build our heuristics.įor our heuristics, we will take a simple brute-force approach and use the breadth-first search algorithm to check the nodes. For our use case saving memory is important since we are dealing with a possible game tree of 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 nodes.Īlright, now that we have a better understanding of the algorithm we’re going to use let’s build it. ![]() However, by not saving our visited nodes we do not need as much memory. By not saving the visited nodes we have a chance of visiting the same node twice giving us a worse time complexity for the overall algorithm. Not saving the visited nodes has pros and cons. This algorithm uses a simple sum of the g_score and the h_score to evaluate each node.Īs previously stated in IDA* we do not save the visited nodes. In this diagram, I show the g_score (the cost to reach the current node) and the h_score (the predicted cost of the path ahead). In IDA* the heuristics guide the DFS with the tree expanding every iteration similarly to Monte Carlo Tree Search (see my blog post Building a Chess Engine: Part 2 for an explanation of MCTS).īelow is an example tree for the IDA* method. IDA* is a tree search method that uses a combination of heuristics and depth-first search (DFS). Typically A* is optimal for a search problem however, with such a large search space it is very likely we will run out of memory if we were using A*. A* and IDA* use a similar approach where A* remembers which nodes were visited while IDA* does not. This algorithm is preferred over A* due to memory limitations. The algorithm we’re going to use is the Iterative Deepening A* (IDA*) search algorithm. Instead, we’re going to use a more efficient search algorithm. We could use a brute force approach however, with today’s computation limitations this is infeasible. With the game tree approach, we know that we are going to need to search the game tree to find the least moves possible to solve the cube. However, we’re going to take a game tree approach. Now that we have a working model of the Rubiks cube, let’s start working on making the solver.įor a solver, there are multiple approaches we could take to solve this. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll stick to nxn cubes so that we do not need to deal with the geometry of any other 3-D shapes (sometimes the puzzle is other shapes like squares or triangles). Okay, so now that we have background knowledge of the Rubik’s cube, our first step will be to build one. “God’s Number” is a term with Rubik’s cubes that refers to the maximum number of turns to solve a cube in any configuration.Īnother impressive thing that has come out of this studying is a variety of standardized algorithms for solving the cube. ![]() One paper of great significance is the paper “ The diameter of the Rubik’s cube group is twenty.” In this paper, they determined that “God’s Number” is 20 turns. Mathematicians have taken a liking to the cube due to its complex group theory, spawning many scientific papers on the topic. ![]() Permutations of a Rubik’s cube equation | Image by authorīecause of this complexity, many study Rubik’s cubes, ranging from hobbyists to mathematicians. ![]()
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