Rocker Bogie control

Good afternoon, i work in college that have entered a team into an engineering competition. They have been set the task of build a vehicle that can inspect vertical gas turbine uptakes on ships. We are going to build our own wheels but the issue we are not sure on is how to drive the 6 12v motors they will be using. The wheels do not need to be independently controlled so we were thinking of joining the 3 wheels on the same side together and controlling it that way. The students want to use Raspberry pi but not sure what motor controller to use. The vehicle needs to be remote control as well. So a big shout out to you all for any information you can pass on would be great.

Thank you all, Jason

Hi Jason,

You will need a motor controller which can be connected to your Raspberry Pi. Probably by a serial or i2c communication.
To choose the right one it would be required to know the amount of current per channel (each bank of 3 motors) needed.

Some controllers like the Sabertooth will have a “tank” mode build-in which is really helpful when doing such a project.
Otherwise here is our Brushed DC Motor Controllers category.

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