Autonomous Tracked Vehicle with arm for Robotic Vision

Lynxmotion Rovers, Sumo, and Tracked
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Hi

Concept: My project consists on building an autonomous robot to tamper with robotic vision, pick and place objects and do trayectory planning though robotic vision.

I’m thinking of using as core components:
-Tri-track chassis
-AL5-B or D
-Botboarduino + a Motor controller
-FitPc with Matlab
-Cmucam on pan-tilt
-Lots of Batteries.

My first concern is weight, so i’ll start by aquiring everything but the Arm, so as to try things out first.
Which motor upgrade should i condider for the tri-track? I need torque over speed, just in case a push the weight limits.

My second concern is how to sort out and place the batteries.
I’ve been adviced to isolate the power sources for control electronics and servos/motors.
So, what batteries should i get?

I intended this first post to be short and general, i’ll go into specifics as I go. Please let my know opinions, concerns, i’m very open to advice, since this is my first aproach to robotics.

Very Bests

Julian Davis.

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If you need to test for potential success of the project you described before spending a lot of $$$ for hardware, then get the above part working first. The mechanical part of the bot is fairly straight foward.