Autonomous Ground Veichle -01

Hi, My names Alex McClung I'm 15 from Newcastle, Australia and this is My Robot.

My whole life ive had a strong passion for Robotics, I one day Hope to become a Mechatronic Engineer. This is my first Robot and i wanted it to be a Large Semi rough terrain Robot. My Original plans were to make this robot to be controlled with Xbees but thats not "True Robotics", Just "Large RC". So i decided to go Fully Autonomous.

My Robot Uses an Official Arduino Mega 2650 R3 Microcontroller with an Xbee Shield and a Sparkfun Monster Moto Shield Driving 2 Motors - 12V, 14A Stall Per Motor. Aswell as An Arduino Pro Mini 328 5V/16Mhz for controling the Lighting .

For navigation my Robot Uses an Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout and a Pololu MiniIMU-9 (3- Axis Accelerometer, Gyro and Magnetometer) which has 9 Degrees Of Freedom In total.

As well as Navigation it also has Object Avoidence using a Parallax Ping Sensor and Two Sharp Distance Sensors (GP2Y0A02YK).

FPV (400mw 5.8GHZ Over a Mile Range) Wireless Video
Xbee Data Telementry.
RGB LED Lighting
Parallax Emic 2 Text-To-Speech Module with two 0.5W Audio Amplifiers and two 8 Ohm Speakers.
CDS Photocell To turn the Headlights on In the dark.

Currently Integrating the GPS and Emic 2 and FPV Modules into my Robot, All the rest is working fine.

I'll Keep you Posted :)

,Alex

Uses GPS, Compass, Gyro and Object Avoidence to Navigate

Actuators / output devices: Two 14 Amp Motors, Emic 2 Text to Speech Module
Control method: fully autonomous, Xbee Failsafe
CPU: Arduino Pro Mini 5V/16MHz, Arduino Mega 2650
Operating system: Arduino bootloader
Power source: 2x 12 9AH Sealed Lead Acid Batterys
Programming language: arduino/wiring
Sensors / input devices: Parallax Ping, CDS cells, Pololu MiniIMU-9, Adafruit Ultimate GPS, Two Sharp Distance Sensors
Target environment: outdoor, Semi rough terrain, Open areas