Creating an Autonomous Vehicle

Creating an Autonomous Vehicle#188673

By runningman - Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:07 pm

- Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:07 pm #188673

Hi, all!

So I've been using arduino and AVR microcontrollers for some time now and I would like to take my projects to the next level. I want to build an autonomous (small (land)) vehicle capable of moving at a maximum speed of maybe 20mph.

I was just wondering if this was at all possible or if that kind of speed is much too fast. If any of you have pointers to what kind of motors I might need or better yet a more specialized site where I can learn this stuff, I'd appreciate it a lot. I'm super excited to get started!

Thanks!

Last edited by runningman on Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:19 am, edited 1 time in total.

Re: Creating an Autonomous Vehicle#188680

By jremington - Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:59 am

- Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:59 am #188680

Best to start out with slow moving vehicles, as things almost always go wrong.

This site is a good place to start: http://diydrones.com/

Re: Creating an Autonomous Vehicle#188685

By runningman - Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:19 am

- Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:19 am #188685

Oh, no. I'm sorry! I didn't specify this would be like a buggy. It's a car. No bigger than a regular RC car, and preferably built upon a chassis for one of them.

Re: Creating an Autonomous Vehicle#188838

By runningman - Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:53 pm

- Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:53 pm #188838

I'm just wondering if there's an online community somewhere I can start digging around for knowledge.

Re: Creating an Autonomous Vehicle#188846

By DanV - Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:09 am

- Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:09 am #188846

What's wrong with the link jremington provided?
if you dig into it a little you get to the rover (RC car based)
http://rover.ardupilot.com/wiki/common- ... -planning/

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