Terrestrial Drone Creation from Rover, Robotic Arm and Raspberry Pi with Sun Tracker Function
Roland Szabó · 2018
This paper presents the creation steps and components of a terrestrial drone. The drone is created from a rover, a robotic arm and a Raspberry Pi. The rover and robotic arm are from Lynxmotion. The rover has four motors and the robotic arm has five motors which needs to be controlled. The "brain" of the whole system is a Raspberry Pi. The rover has an "eye" too, it has a web camera to have the possibility to drive it on places where it cannot be seen by the operator. The rover has "ears"and "mouth" too be able to hear and speak. The operator can speak and it can be heard by the persons near the rover and the operator can hear the noises around the rover. The rover has a microphone built in the webcam and a separate speaker on audio interface. The rover can be controlled by an operator via Wi-Fi using a Linux machine. The computer needs to have also a speaker and a microphone connected to it, to be able to transport voice though the wireless interface, to be able to speak and hear with the rover. The rover has also sensors to follow the sun, so it has sun tracker function too. The rover it's controlled with a Python application using the arrows from the keyboard and the robotic arm is controlled with the computer's mouse. The image from the video camera from the rover is sent back on wireless interface and shown in a windows to the operator in order to be able to drive the rover.