This Project was done early 2008 when I started attending UAT (University of Advancing Technology) and was deleted when I transferred my website over to WordPress. I thought it was time to pull this out of the archives and re-post it again.
“The main purpose of this robot is object avoidance. The way that it works is by using a Ping ))) Ultrasonic Sensor mounted on a servo, this unit is them mounted on the front of the car. This works by taking 3 ultrasonic samples, Center, Right, and Left. It keeps driving straight until it finds something in its path, it then used the data from the last “sensing” of the left and right to determine which way to turn, if both paths are open it randomly chooses which way to turn, but if both sides are blocked it then reverses and tries it again to see if there is a better path. All of this is done without stopping between commands, thus the car never stops moving or slows down.”
-Well that was the original idea, But in the end, one of the major changes was that the speed that the car was traveling was proportional to the distance between the car and any other objects that may be in it’s path.
Here are some pictures of this project and some videos hosted on YouTube:
