Mobile Recon Station

A simple car you can control thru a local web server to map a plane surface or detect and follow colors in autonomous mode. See the simulation here.

Features

Wireless control

Color calibration

Color detection

Mapping

Hardware

• 1 Raspberry PI 3B+
• 1 Raspberry PI Camera module
• 4 Gear motor 5V DC
• 4 Wheels
• 1 Chasis
• 1 L298N
• 1 MPU6050
• 1 Powerbank 2A 5V
• 4 AA Batteries

Electronic circuit

Software dependencies

Name	Installation
Phyton3	Official website
OpenCV >= 4.5.2	Official guide
numpy	pip install numpy
cv_recon	pip install cv-recon
flask	pip install Flask
smbus	sudo apt install python3-smbus
matplotlib >= 3.3.4	pip install matplotlib

Usage

1. Install dependencies
2. Enable Raspberry PI Camera
3. Clone repo into $HOME/Github/
4. Run car/systemd_service/ln_to_system.sh to add startup rutine
5. Run car/systemd_service/enable.sh to enable startup rutine
6. Reboot
7. Access Raspberry PI local IP from a web browser to control it