Hey guys,
I need help for my School senior project , I'm building an Autonomous GPS controlled rover. By GPS controlled I mean that it goes to a certain location using coordinates from a GPS. My question is how to I build this I've looked up everything and it says I need to fuse Ardafruit and Arduino together. If u could help explain to me and give me the easiest and simplest way to accomplish this whether its only Arduino or without I just need help with the coding and I wouldn't mind some tips on the hardware. If u have created this before and wouldn't mind giving me a code or some tips that would be great. Basically, if u could at least give me some help on the product as a whole, I would appreciate it.
Plz read my latest reply to get a better understanding of would I have achieved so far
Regard,
Wasfi Jaouni
To paraphrase the response from another web site:
Please be aware that this is not a free design house, homework-answering service or an on-demand online technical encyclopedia. Please revise your question to include the work you have achieved so far.
Have you made ANY design decisions at all? How big is it? How does it move? How will it steer? What sort of surfaces does it travel on? How accurately do you expect it to find "a certain location"?
Don't think anyone here is going to just give you a complete project so you can cheat and say you did it. But if you make a reasonable start we'll gladly help you get it working better.
Have you tried Google. When I entered "Arduino autonomous robot" or "car" or "vehicle" it found a lot of useful looking information.
Steve
I'd buy some robot car kit. They might include some hardware needed for line following or obstacle avoiding. Figure out how to program them. Move on to GPS. Learn how to read GPS stuff. You probably need a compass module along with the GPS module. Learn how to read them. After that, replace the line following/obstacle avoiding stuff (both hardware and code) and replace it with your compass and GPS modules (both hardware and code). Done! That wasn't so hard, was it?
Yes I have, please know that I am NOT cheating. I asked my Project mentor and he told me that people here could give me useful information. It should be able to steer and drive at around 10Km, by certain location I mean that it should be able to arrive at the coordinates of its Destination and of course I have looked it up on google I've been looking it up for the past 6 months and I am still experiencing difficulties making it Autonomous but at the same time making it GPS controlled. If u don't want to help then fine, I just need some help with my Project with the coding and a bit of hardware. If do find any useful information I PROMISE I will cite u in my bibliography.
Thanks,
Wasfi
You have to tell us what you already have. You haven't told us anything. Maybe you don't have anything. I already explained one thing you could do and I still think it could work, though a line following robot converted to a GPS steered robot might be too small and slow to travel 10 km. And there would be battery issues.
Please understand that no one is going to help you, if you don't bother to answer questions.
By 10 Km, did you mean 10 km/h?
wasfi-jaouni:
Basically, if u could at least give me some help on the product as a whole, I would appreciate it.
To begin with ........ you will need to provide adequate details of the project, like environment, potential obstacles, the terrain, any buildings that might block GPS signal, constraints etc.
"GPS-controlled" is probably not the words to describe your project. Perhaps 'gps-guided', or at least uses gps information as part of its guidance or navigation system.
Sorry, my reply was mainly towards the first 2 repliers. Anyway, at the moment I have an 4x4 model with an arduino uno circuit board. I know I must be doing something wrong with the code beacuse its not working you said something about making a line following robot and then replacing with an GPS module, but thats more complicated than it sound and If I do get a GPS module inside, how do I control it. I understand that I'm not giving u as much information as u want from me and I apologize I mainly specialize with hardware but I haven't really ever used software and incorporated it in my product. My body is very nice with a strong yet easy to open body If I need to change anything. My battery must be weak because its not proving to be very helpful. Which battery should I use? I am trying to make a simple yet well performing design. Btw the body is of a blocky design with curves corners and its wide with the ultrasonic sensor sticking out on the top front of the rover.
Regards,
Wasfi
wasfi-jaouni:
Sorry, my reply was mainly towards the first 2 repliers. Anyway, at the moment I have an 4x4 model with an arduino uno circuit board. I know I must be doing something wrong with the code beacuse its not working
But you still haven't answered most of the questions we asked. Your project isn't impossible but it is fairly complicated so you really do want to think things through properly.
But show us what "4x4 model" you have and give details of it. A link to it would be good. And give details of the battery you're currently using that you think is too weak. Unless we know what you have now and what you're trying to use it with how can we tell you what might work better?
If the machine is going to travel to a location defined as a set of GPS coordinates have you thought about how you are going to enter the co-ordinates? Will the location be fixed, built in to the program, or will there be some way to enter a new location? Also please confirm that the vehicle is only intended to work outdoors...GPS doesn't really work inside buildings. And does it also need to be able to avoid obstacles? Unless it is only going to work in a very specific completely open area it probably will.
Then post the code you currently have that isn't working and tell us exactly what it does do and what you had hoped it would do.
Steve
We're wasting our time trying to help Wasfi here. He doesn't seem to bother wasting his time on thoroughly reading our responses and acting to them.
After their last response I decided that they were just a troll. Everybody else has more patience than I!