Autonomous Robotic ATV - Phase 1 - "RC vehicle" (Hi-def)

UNC Charlotte is working on an autonomous All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) that can sense its environment and traverse most any terrain. It will follow a pre-defined path pulling a trailer that has sensing equipment.

Phase 1 is to build the mechanical and electrical systems to allow someone to drive the vehicle like an RC car (later we will replace the RC controller with computer control).

As you can see from the video, it works!

It is an off-the-shelf Honda ATV. We collected Video, LIDAR and GPS data as well which we will integrate later.

Photos and more videos at: http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jmconrad/zapatabot.html

For more information about this research contact James Conrad at: jmconrad@uncc.edu

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Autonomous
• all
• terrain
• vehicle

[stiquitojmconrad]

FYI, there is an IEEE paper with details - "Components of an autonomous all-terrain vehicle" at SoutheastCon 2010. If you have access to IEEE Xplore, you can get the paper for free (universities typically have this). Sorry, due to copyright law I cannot send you a free copy.

[mckinneyengineering]

A bunch of these on the road would be cool. Can you make them deliver stuff?

[Trex9000aholic]

I think this is the coolest thing ever. Whatever school is doing this should geet more funding and really get this thing sick. Maybe take it on some sweet jumps or put some sweet pegs on it.

[mckinneyengineering]

To clear up a few comments. It is not autonomous in this video, but we are working toward that. We use a linear actuator for the breaks and a servo for the throttle. The ATV has gears, but we are not shifting because we only need to be going about 3 MPH. The ATV came with an electric motor for power steering assist, which we use for the steering. The LIDAR is taking data, but the data is not being used to control the robot. This is all tied together with a Renesas microcontroller (QSK62P Kit).

[1edfgh]

how did you do it

[string338]

the guy has a helmet on hahahaha

[HollandProjects]

Absolutely no sensing of environment and no traversing.

Other than driving slow around a vacant parking lot, must have taken some time, so good effort

[vortex812]

its not automatic.

[vortex812]

they probably havent set up the servo to shift yet.

[kandg30]

it dont have gears its auto matic

[djnemesis82pluss1877]

USE A PS050 SERVO TO SHIFT GEARS