Building a scaled model of autonomous convoy powered by ARM mbed microcontrollers

Author

Vechet, Stanislav ; Krejsa, Jiri ; Ruzicka, Michal ; Masek, Petr

Author_Institution

Fac. of Mech. Eng., Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno, Czech Republic

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

711

Lastpage

714

Abstract

Presented paper presents ARM mbed microcontroller usage as a control unit in student´s autonomous convoy project. The ARM mbed devices are based on 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers and are widely used for a number of students and science projects. Proper selection of appropriate HW platform is typical issue, especially nowadays when students can choose from many different and low-cost platforms such as Raspberry PI, Beagle Bone, Arduino or TI Launchpad. In presented paper we would like to show the working solution of control unit for autonomous vehicle based on ARM mbed and show why we chose this platform from mentioned HW competition. The scaled model of an autonomous convoy project is made, consisting of a number of vehicles and it is necessary to have a powerful control unit to handle all calculations.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control engineering education; microcontrollers; mobile robots; 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers; ARM mbed microcontrollers; Arduino; Beagle Bone; NW competition; Raspberry PI; TI launchpad; autonomous vehicle control unit; scaled model; science projects; student autonomous convoy project; Bones; Computers; Mathematical model; Microcontrollers; Random access memory; Sensors; Vehicles; ARM mbed; Autonomous convoy; Mobile robots; embedded control unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brno

Print_ISBN

978-80-214-4817-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MECHATRONIKA.2014.7018349

Filename

7018349