Title :
Vehicular platooning experiments with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT
Author :
Dan Martinec;Zdeněk Hurák
Author_Institution :
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, 16627 Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The paper reports on experimenting with a popular introductory robotics toolkit LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT that was aimed at demonstrating a few algorithms for distributed control of a long platoon of autonomous vehicles. The configuration used in this report measures the distance to the vehicle ahead and the velocity of the vehicle itself. The acquired technical experience with this platform is shared in the report, including recommendation towards improvements.
Keywords :
"Vehicles","Robot sensing systems","Bluetooth","Educational robots","DC motors"
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications (CCA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1062-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.2011.6044393