The Cambridge Minicar is a low-cost mobile robot platform with Ackermann steering.
It fits within a 75 x 81 x 197 mm box, weighs 450g (including batteries), costs $76.5 and can be built in 3 hours. The motors can be powered for 2.2 hours when running at 0.3 m/s and the logic can be powered for over 5 hours. The minimum turning radius is 0.56 m, the maximum steering angle is 18 degrees and the maximum steering rate is 0.076 rad/s.
If you use this platform in your research, please cite our paper:
@inproceedings{hyldmar2019fleet,
title={A fleet of miniature cars for experiments in cooperative driving},
author={Hyldmar, Nicholas and He, Yijun and Prorok, Amanda},
booktitle={2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
pages={3238--3244},
year={2019},
organization={IEEE}
}
Dr Amanda Prorok: [email protected]
Yijun He: [email protected]
Nicholas Hyldmar: [email protected]