Remote Controlled Tractor Pt 2. Building a Ground Station
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ย. 2020
- The systems integration portion of this project ended up presenting much more of a challenge than I originally expected. It definitely took longer than expected but I also learned a lot. I hope you guys enjoy the video. Let me know any thoughts or ideas you have in the comments.
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You’re going places man. As an electronics engineer myself, a lot of this approach and thinking is used in industry. You’re really smart and you can do both electronic and mechanical work. Good job!
I know this is a old video, but can you maybe do a shortish video showing us how you created the GUI? I find that fascinating. I always considered myself a hardware kinda guy and have almost no experience writing code with the exception of blinking a LED with an UNO.
hi handsome. great channel and topic i love this channel.
This man has a million dollars in a $1,000 rider... Sounds like something I'd do 😂🤘 Awesome build man!
Killer mower gets hijacked by kokaine bear coming to a theatre near you. Awesome build, would like to see the steering build and clutch builds. I never change rpm during mowing so you can skip this, well they are good for startup.
That red button on the joystick is begging to be used as a nitro boost
Or bizarre flames from a hood mounted stack, LOL
This idea has true potential. You could use a Pixhawk with mission planner rover on it connected to the computer via a 900 mhz link for extra range and use a dji digital system for the video as they have amazing clarity and up to 10 km range with the newer ones, it is a big investment though it is worth it over analogue. If however you do want to use analogue I recommend using a 1.5 ghz link or lower (the lower frequency the longer the range but the lower the video quality) I hope you do revisit this with these changes!
Cool project. You might be able to use RTKlib together with a GPS received on your base station to do more accurate position fixes. With a stationary GPS receiver and a mobile receiver you can correct some position errors and theoretically achieve 1-2 cm accuracy. You might be able to execute a waypoint mission with this level of accuracy.
Amazing . Im impressed with your knowledge.
I'm working on a similar setup myself, I'm an electronics specialist tho and not a engineer lol. I plan on using an Libre Renegade with a webserver, monitoring an Arduino with several breakouts for motor drivers and feedbacks for pots/limit switches to make my old riding mower a VR (fps) mower.
Mainly so my older parents can still mow the lawn on super hot days, they have 6-7 acre front lawn that spans both sides of the road.
Wish you finished your original idea so I could borrow some plans lol
As for the wifi limitations, I'll probably using a single Ubiquiti M2-400 Powerbeam at the house and a cheap WiFi router onboard the mower. Since I live in the middle of nowhere, I don't mind unprotected wifi for this system lol
Great Job Mikey!! I love it!
Ive worked in many factories and and a machine shop. It seems so much more interesting being the one to come up with designs and figure out ways to make differnt things. I would like to see people get back to making everything themselves and trading and selling with eachother and do away with big corporations. Everything small business . i was gonna say local but it wouldn't have to be local but it would be good to have a community of makers of all things, especially if(or when) society breaks down. I want to learn how to grow all my own foods, make my own vitamins, supplements, even my clothes. That would be alot to learn. Anyway really impressive.
This is amazing!! Great job! I've been thinking about doing something like this and this is really inspiring. I like your video editing btw, I'm excited to go check out some of your other vids.
9:07 you ran over a bucket. :)
Great job. You could add a camera pointing down so it would be easier to line up with the cut. If you get what I mean. Also 1,3ghz analog feed would offer better live video with decent penetration, I suppose?
Hi Michael, What an amazing work you did, but I'm just wanted to ask what kind of program or software do you use to control the tractor or mower?
This video deserves way more attention! Awesome work man. In the interest of views, definitely use that red button for some kind of click-baity hook like “I Put A Machine Gun Turret on My Autonomous Lawn Mower” or something ridiculous in your next segment. Good stuff! Look forward to seeing more!
Awesome job. I am trying to do something similar with a zero turn.
Me too!
hi handsome great video.
Das ist ein sehr gutes Video von euch (part I+II).
Habe bereits einen RC-Raupenmäher (Made in China).
Möchte aber gerne an meinem garden tractor (stihl) einen Laser mit Fotoerkennung installieren. Unser Ziel sind die zahlreichen Unkräuter im Garten.
Grüße aus Berlin /germany.
Absolutely amazing. Maybe you could do a collaboration with Michael Reeves? :D
Really impressive! Great job and good progress working on project. Michael, what is the next goal? Fully (or partially) autonomous tractor with lawn mower? Sounds pretty interesting...
P.S. Came here from your post on FB, at "Arduino Academy" group
Excellent project! Subscribed to see what else you come up with! Ive wanted to do something similar for a while. Have you ever played with any late model quadcoptors? Most quads have all the sensors you added plus sonar and multiple cameras used for guidance and obstacle avoidance. From my understanding the quads are based on arduino and have very robust 2.4 and 5ghz bands with impressive range. Ive flown mine 3 miles before starting to lose the camera feed.
Id be curious if you could cobble a late model quad to your relays and servo/motor controllers and add in some proximity sensors, sonar, cameras etc to have feedback needed to autonomize.
Very Nice, looks cool
Wow. That is amazing. I want to learn how to do stuff like this. So much went into that. How did you create the software to control the mower. How long does it take to go from knowing nothing to be able to be know all the different components. Just started getting into the maker culture. I want to learn so much.
Very nice work! How many job offers have you received?
Fall is here my dudes.
Keep going the video telemetry latency can be rectified
Line of sight is a good start
Have you thought a using mission planner
What are of all the differnt technologies that you have to learn. You ve got microcontrollers, wireless communication, software, 3D printing.
I use a foot on the gas pedal that is maintained on while the communication is good, as soon as my rover looses communication the gas pedal is released and the brake is activated.
I'll be using a Jetson Nano, so i can use computer vision and Lidar.
Try reducing the resolution/colors of the video. Indoors is very simple contrasts, outdoors video produces a wide spectrum of colors which is less compressible.
Did you program the GUI? If so what language did you do that in?
Install APM 2.5 to automate route with control points.
Your video would be much enhanced if the lawnmower were moving about in an apparently deliberate manner.
Will you offer all of your code?
What program language are guys using? 😬
Most likely C for the Arduino bit and Processing for the GUI.
Actually, I was wonder why no (internet ,wifi)remote mower!
There are many "weekend farmer", if we can mower the grass through internet, that be cool
RC control, however is not reasonable, to be a weekend farmer we dont have too much time on mower the grass
Yeah this was 2years ago I'm sure he's working for Elon today!