raspberryrobot / vehiclecontrol

Control system for RaspberryPi robotic vehicle.

vehiclecontrol

Control system for RaspberryPi robotic vehicle.

Tested OK with Raspbian Stretch on Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

Motor control interface is Cytron HAT-MDD10.

Written in python3.

4 programs are provided:

Motor control - rover_control_module_UDP.py
System commands - rover_system_module_TCP.py
Video server - rover_video_module_TCP.py
Startup script - start.py

Step 1 - Create a directory /rover owned by user pi

$ sudo -s
$ cd /
$ mkdir /rover
$ chown pi:pi /rover

Step 2 - Clone current repo and copy files in directory /rover

$ cd /rover
$ git clone https://github.com/raspberryrobot/vehiclecontrol

You should have these files in directory /rover/vehiclecontrol

rover_control_module_UDP.py
rover_system_module_TCP.py
rover_video_module_TCP.py
start.py

Step 3 - Fix program permissions

$ cd /rover/vehiclecontrol
$ chmod +x *.py

Step 4 - Manage startup execution with cron

$ crontab -e

Add the following line

@reboot /rover/vehiclecontrol/start.py

Step 5 - Reboot

Control programs will be started at next reboot