Hardware

Right now, CoNSeRT has the following hardware at its disposition.

2X DuckieBots (version DB21M)

Each one is made of  :

  • Chassis:
    • – Differential drive configuration
  • Sensors:
    • – Hall effect sensor wheel encoders
    • – Front-facing 160deg FOV camera
    • – IMU
    • – Front-facing time of flight sensor
    • – Various sensors for battery diagnostics
  • Actuators:
    • – 2 DC motors
    • – 4 Addressable RGB LEDs
  • Computation:
  • Memory:
    • – 32 GB micro sd card
  • Power:
    •  – Duckiebattery: 10Ah, 2x2A USB outputs, 4.5A max
  • User Interface:
    • – Screen
    • – Shut-off button

1X Navigation Starter Pack

Our city was built based on the recommendation from the MOOC course Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown

It is made from :

  • – 15 black foam “road” interlocking tiles of size ~0.6×0.6m
  • – Duckietown compliant 8 cm tile border area for placing traffic signs
  • – 12 traffic signs (with stands)
  • – Lock tiles in different configurations to obtain different city topographies
  • – 20 Duckies 

4X DIY Traffic Lights

Each one is made of :

  • Chassis:
    • – 3D printed shell 
  • Stem:
    • – metallic drinking straw
  • Base:
    • – 100mm plastic expansion plugs (with their ends cut to the base) 
  • Cables:
    •  – single strand type
  • Computation for all the system:

Gallery

Check out some of our photos

INCUBATION CENTER UniWA

DB21

DUCKIETOWN

TRAFFIC SIGNS