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Awesome.
Just stumbled across this. What motors are you using?
What program did you use to design the boards?
how much is the total power required?
why didnt you make it do somthing…. like mow
Seems like it would not be difficult to add lines to the program, if wheels are turning but GPS position does not change for 3 to 5 min, initiate "unstuck" protocol, (reverse for 1 min then pivot right one min, then pivot left one min, return to main program ) .
is it still alive?
What motor and driver do you recommend to power a similar rover in a range of speed between 1 and 15mph?
I’m having trouble finding something that has a wide range of speeds with good efficiency.
Love you channel
What job do you have that you can just do all this
How many watts are those solar panels?
Now I want to make one. The idea of having a rover doing it's thing is so cool
Your YouTube channel is getting to inspiring for me I been doing electronics my whole life not like this but damn. I’m really really impressed lol
Why aren't you already work for SpaceX or nasa? Dude you work out so much with autonomous stuff,…. Somebody has to see the potential
why the obsession with 4 wheels? Make 3 wheels one wheel what is free swinging in the middle, the other 2 mothers just pull, of course correcting by going backwards isn´t optimal but it still will work better in most situations 😉
How did you mount the wheels?
Man learn more about chains.
Maybe you should consider using plastic skeleton instead of heavy steel.
Do you know where the GPS noise came from?
Deflate the tires.. also maybe get better ones
Very cool project and I feel a little embarrassed at my attempt to help you with tuning issues on the Ardupilot discussion boards. I thought you were a Newbie, but you are WAY beyond me, I think! 🙂
I was thinking a mower blade but a metal detector works too.
When I was a kid in the '80s there was a toy monster truck that had claws that would extend if a wheel stopped spinning. The hub would continue spinning extending the claws that would unstick it.
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Good project overall and good electronics. However, you are using way too light mechanical components for the wheels, the chain, the gears, and height given the terrain. The electronics portions of your design seems very good. But, it seems you have to think more about the environmental parameters and the extreme stress points of your physical components. Also, it may help to put more protective items around exposed moving parts and possible redundancy in the mechanical items.
What is the function of that little voltage regulator you are using, if it has the solar panels connected directly to the input you will have problems at sunrise, those buck regulators don't like slowly rising voltages on the input (sunrise), and will not startup.
…so I designed an additional 3D printed cycloidal gearbox with a 13:1 reduction ratio that goes in series with the Barbie Jeep gearbox…….. ooooofffff course ya did!! LOL. I'd expect you to 3D print a cold fusion reactor next to power the thing. Great job on this.
Reminds me of the NASA rover sent to mars
I'm interested to know what flight controller you used for this, and if it's the same flight controller you use for your other autonomous projects?
how does the rover continue to do way point missions after you leave it and drive away? is your transmitter still at the field? if you turned your transmitter off wouldn't the rover go into failsafe mode?
What did you use for a solar-> Lipo charge controller?
This is a great autonomous security patrol robot haha
Very cool indeed.
Plain, surface tyres, with pressure regulator/pump/release. Baloon.
Cycloidal gearboxes are superb
Can you use a regular rc truck ESC and connect it to AudruRover/Pixhawk? Also is it possible to program a RC truck ESC with a airplane receiver and transmitter? Thanks man keep killing it!
Add some Omni wheels
Why dont you spin one side in reverse when you're doing a turn ?