The purpose of this project is to explore simple autonomous systems. The project consists of designing and building a motorized rover that is able to move autonomously. The design consists of a remote controlled car coupled with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, implementing ultrasonic range detection for obstacle avoidance. We will be overhauling the current RC control scheme of the car to allow it to be controlled directly from the Raspberry Pi.
Obstacle avoidance will be tested using an array of HR-S04 ultrasonic sensors, with the goal of minimizing error in
sensor readings that could lead to the rover crashing. The current implemetation uses the DistanceSensor class from
the gpiozero library.
The rover control is tailored to integrate with an RC car powered by 2 DC motors. The motors are driven by an
and a Raspberry Pi, implemented using the
Adafruit_MotorHAT library.
- Everest Witman: Project Manager, Junior Developer
- Joseph Zieg: Senior Developer
- Aaron Seibring: Head Hardware Engineer
- PJ Solomon: Hardware Engineer, Junior Developer