Building a robotic autonomous rover for competition and canyon crawling. It uses a Zed RGB-D camera to figure out where objects are and how to avoid them. Has a Lidar unit for after dark use. The motors can be controlled with an x-box controller, radio and rx, or serial from the onboard computers. Has WiFi and bluetooth. 2 Nvidia Jetson supercomputers. An Arduino gps inertial motion unit so it knows when its upside down and when its on a hill so you can apply more power etc. The combination of Zed Lidar IMU and GPS allow it to know where it is in the world how fast its moving and what direction its moving in. Has a pair of 720p cams as well and a mast for mounting a DLSR or Video camera or both. The Jetsons run Ubuntu Linux so several camera control programs are available. Looking at FPV units now so I can check it out real time.









First test will be to make it around one of the local r/c tracks. 12 inches of articulation total length 24 inches. Calculated top speed is a shade over 7mph with the 350rpm geared motors I bought. Could go higher but the terrain I plan on using it on will require slow speeds and there will be a couple of thou worth of camera and lens on it so no need to take too many chances. I'll post up some vid when I get it working.

Griz