GMU ECE Explorer Motion Control Test

This is test of my senior design project, ECE Explorer.
The video shows obstacle avoidance testing.

There are some bugs and sonars on the vehicle does not seem to be updating fast enough (Must be coding problem.)
Poster:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~boh1/ECE_Explorer_Poster.pdf

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ECE
• Explorer
• GMU
• motion
• control
• robot

[lambition]

HM55B doesn't use any standard inteface. I had to use bit banging.

I wouldn't recommand using it. For some reason I was getting a extra bit when I was doing bit banging.

Using compass with I2C or SPI interface would make your life much easier. :)

I was in real hurry and I'm sure my code had lots of bugs. Only had about a month to do coding.

Although this was a group project (my group had 3 people), I was the only one actually working on something. :(

[sk8rj10]

Sweet bot, i like the diamond plate chassis! Cool idea with the wireless link also. Too bad about the slow updating. I have also used the Maxbotics EZ1 Sonar sensor on one of my robots and was able to update very quickly (every 0.5 seconds i believe) so your issue may very well be in the code as you suggested.

How did the Hitachi HM55B digital compass work out for you?