High speed robotics with low cost hardware

High performance robotics is traditionally considered as an application area reserved to university laboratories and to the research centres of a limited group of company, which can afford high investments in equipments and system engineering. We make the point that this is not necessarily true if an adequate design is used to compensate for the lack of sophisticated sensors. To prove the validity of this idea we propose a concrete case study: driving a car-like vehicle at a high speed with a cost of the hardware below 500 Euros.