sebastiankliem/carrera-platooning

Implement platooning for Carrera Digital 132. The car is controlled by an Arduino Nano.

Carrera Platooning

University project. Implement platooning for Carrera Digital 132. The car is controlled by an Arduino Nano.

The car uses a VL53L0X time of flight sensor to detect the distance to the car driving ahead. It speeds up or slows down based on this measurements using a PID controller.

Dependencies

The final code for diriving is at eos17_finale_abgabe.
Install via Arduino library manager:

• Adafruit_VL53L0X
• Arduino-PID-Library

The Car

The circuit to control the car using the Arduino was originally built by other people before us. We made some additions:

• diodes for preventing the car to disturb the rail signal when the motor slows down
• a VL53L0X time of flight sensor for measung the distance distance to the car driving ahead

This is how the car looks like:

Circuit diagram: