I am currently working on a "rover", using the RS-EDP and an mbed as the brains, with the following concept:
The idea is to control the motors on the rover with the RS-EDP-AM-MC1 motor control modules and provide feedback with quadrature encoders, and inertial sensors such as gyroscopes and accelerometers to perform dead reckoning.
All of the data obtained from the sensors will be stored on an SD card housed in the mbed command module's SD card slot so after the rover has been taken out for a spin, I will be able to see where it "thought" it was going.
The end product will hopefully have remote control via Wi-Fi allowing me to telnet into it and give it commands!
I will be posting updates here so you can track the progression from start to finish and see it evolve from a conceptual diagram into something that can move and determine it's position.
Other posts in this series:
1. Introduction
2. Chassis
3. Quadrature encoders
4. PID velocity control
5. Inertial measurement unit
6. Rover State Machine
7. Conclusion
8. Technical Details
