Development of a computer controlled automated small vehicle using SBC

Abstract

Nowadays, society is dependent on automated system. One of the system that is used commonly is automated vehicles. Automated vehicles can navigate itself without the help of a man driving it. Therefore, manpower can be reduced. The goal of this project is to develop a computer controlled vehicle using single board computer. The idea is first to design the interface of the application, the processing unit and integrate all the hardware and software components. The interface module is designed with the help of Javascript, HTML and PHP. A single board computer is used as a processing module which takes instructions from the interface module and send it to the vehicle wheels. The instructions are to move the vehicle to forward, backward, left and right direction. Noted that, the vehicle is initially stop in its last stopped position. The movement is set as time constraint. For five second movement with the instructed direction, the vehicle moves for 5 second to the instructed direction. The results show that the CPU and memory utilization is sufficient to cope the development.