My great Thumb project : Tracking security rover in dangerous environment

Hi everybody,

i'd like to present you my project about a rover conceived to search and find risk in a dangerous area.

The rover can be drive by a panel coded under python and QT as you can see on the picture below.

On the panel you can set Serial port and speed for communication with the xbee module,
you can watch information coming from serial port, information that'll be used to :
  * Display Speed of the rover.
  * Direction of the rover with an arrow.
  * Picture taken by the camera in the rover.

You also have some control to drive the rover forward, backward, left and right and you have a slider
to control the speed power and a last button to take picture.

what's on my way to achieve this project ?

Bring on an ultrasonic range sensor so i can set on an automatic mode which the rover will take picture of any
obstacle it will face.
Set on the command button on the left of the panel so i can give him some waypoint to reach by command (direction, time to go on, direction 2, time to go on , etc....) and take picture of any obstacle it will find on his way.

You can have a look on the rover on the second picture it's always on a prototype mode by now as i'm just checking the reality 
of the project using the specified hardware.

Hardware used:
  * Arduino Romeo V1 bought on dfrobot
  * 6 DOF shield  bought on dfrobot
  * 2 xbee bought on dfrobot
  * URM37 ultrasonic sensor  bought on dfrobot
  * TTL Serial camera  bought on adafruit.

Hope you'll like it 

/enjoy and keep hacks !!!

HarduiKnow