Car No. 05 Third Stage (Plain-vanilla version)

Car No.05 is the project aiming to make a programmed automatic driving car.

In First Stage, I assembled a smaller turning radius R/C chassis and made a relationship table between steering servo value and turning radius.

In Second Stage, I made an Excel simulation program, to which car starting point, car starting direction and target pass points were input, then from which steval and car direction were obtained as automatic driving data.

In this Third Stage, attach PC on car body top, make Tachometers and attach them to both front tires. Utilizing the steval data obtained in Second Stage, automatic driving control system (plain-vanilla version) is tested.

Test result was so-so.

Car went to 5m away and successfully came back.

I have succeeded 3 times only.

Step 1 Procurement

Body

- Car Body  Tamiya 8085258 Mini Cooper Monte Carlo 94 Finished Body

- Lubic

 

PC mounted on Car Body

- Motherboard  ZOTAC IONITX-C-J

- Memory  DDR2 2GB

- HDD  SUPER TALENT FTM16GL25V

- Wireless LAN  Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

- Battery  JTT Energizer XP8000

 

Arduino

- Arduino Duemilanove x 3

- Arduino ProtoShield Kit  DEV-07914 x 3

 

Webcam

- Webcam  Microsoft LifeCam Show RLA-00007

 

Tachometers

- Reflective Photosensor  Rohm RPR-359F x 2

- Resistance  510 ohm x 2,  47K ohm x 2

 

Download

- Arduino

- Processing

- VNC