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Hi!

I require your help regarding a problem I’m encountering.
The SunFounder RB-Suf-80 looks promising for my needs. To be sure, please answer the following questions.

Here is my experiment. Four smart cars enter a bottleneck where 2 lanes merge into 1 lane. Each vehicle uses line tracking. They will crash when the obstacle avoiding software is off.

My goal is prevent them from crashing. Let me explain. Think of an inverted Y where two cars are placed side-by-side on each lane. All cars travel north and move forward at the same time and speed. The first two lead cars will crash when they reach the inverted Y, the point where the 3 lines of the Y meet. The following two side-by-side cars will crash into the back of the two lead crashed vehicles.

Question 1. Does RB-Suf-80 smart car come with obstacle avoidance?

Question 2. Does RB-Suf-80 smart car come with line tracking?

Question 3. If the answers to questions 1 and 2 are no, can I add it?

Thank you

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

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Hi @pjossen and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

You have some interesting experiments there :slight_smile:

I’ve done some research about this product (RB-Suf-80, SunFounder Smart Video Car for Raspberry Pi 3/2/B+). It seems that this product would be great choice for your experiments!

So, it seems that you don’t get installed software with obstacle avoidance or line tracking but surely you can create it (which basically is a purpose of this kit). Especially if you know Python :slight_smile:

Now, check out this example from the manufacturer. There is already a code for Ball Tracking (which is somehow similar to line tracking). You can found code here: https://github.com/sunfounder/SunFounder_PiCar-V/tree/master/ball_track

You can see how it works at the end of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW1SSrVoYyM

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Hi there @pjossen

As @igor_X stated this kit would definitely work for your project, as it is designed for the Raspberry Pi (which is not included) and contains a camera module you will be able to do many vision-based tasks as object/obstacle detection, you could add a line sensor (which are very inexpensive) to make the line tracking even easier but you could also program the robot to do that task based on the camera readings.

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