Laser based obstacle detector for autonomous RC car
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Cool!! BTW, Did you or have you seen the "Grown Up Version" where they use full sized cars with the same type of robotics? There is a race across a fairly harduous terrain. Very clever stuff either on minature or full sized. :)
Ant. I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Walliams (Little Britain) -
Well, I haven't thought of that. :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Cool!! BTW, Did you or have you seen the "Grown Up Version" where they use full sized cars with the same type of robotics? There is a race across a fairly harduous terrain. Very clever stuff either on minature or full sized. :)
Ant. I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Walliams (Little Britain)That sounds cool. Well, I've never tried/seen anything like that. I've only heard about it. :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
You are very talented. Keep up the good work.
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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You are very talented. Keep up the good work.
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
Thanks. :->
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Ya but can it vaccum my floors? cool project
Todd Smith
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Ya but can it vaccum my floors? cool project
Todd Smith
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Cool stuff as always Ashish, I particularly like the use of clothes pin! :) I was a mad scientist like you when I was your age but the stuff we had to play with was way less interesting than it is now.
I'm a mad scientiest?? lol! :laugh:
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Ya but can it vaccum my floors? cool project
Todd Smith
I'll keep that in mind. It shall be my future project. :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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I'm a mad scientiest?? lol! :laugh:
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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I'll keep that in mind. It shall be my future project. :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
You don't have a pre-arranged marrige? :D
Todd Smith
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You don't have a pre-arranged marrige? :D
Todd Smith
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I'm a mad scientiest?? lol! :laugh:
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Ashish Derhgawen wrote:
I'm a mad scientiest??
Yes! :)
Great job, team. Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.
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Ashish Derhgawen wrote:
I'm a mad scientiest??
Yes! :)
Great job, team. Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.
:laugh:
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
ou going to submit it to the DARPA project?
it is easier to widen it to any SBIR[^] than just DARPA, though DARPA is a bit more general sometimes. More choice is better. However, DARPA or SBIR are US paid so outsourcing is rare.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Hey folks! I made a computer controlled RC car a few days ago. Now, I've built a laser pointer + webcam range sensor as an obstacle detector for my car. People normally use IR or ultrasonic obstacle detectors in robotics..but I decided to use my weird obstacle detector with the RC car to turn it into an autonomous vehicle! I've mounted the obstacle detection thing on the car. The computer uses it to sense how far obstacles are.. if they're far enough..it moves the car forward..otherwise, it stops the car and turns it until it finds a place with no obstacles in close range. Check it out on my blog: http://ashishrd.blogspot.com/2007/02/autonomous-rc-car-with-laser-based.html[^] Hope you like it! Ashish :)
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]
Hey Ashish, couldn't guess you'd come back so soon, well I ran out of words :doh:. Let me update my "WoW!" vocabularies & get back to you.:-D
Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"
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Hey Ashish, couldn't guess you'd come back so soon, well I ran out of words :doh:. Let me update my "WoW!" vocabularies & get back to you.:-D
Dario: How is "directory" in French? (I mean a file system directory). John Simmons: "zee file holdaire thingie"
Ha ha! Thanks Vunic :laugh: Ashish
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. Ashish Derhgawen - http://ashishrd.blogspot.com[^]