This project is designing mechatronics system through designing and building an autonomous solution (no human control/interaction) for plugging in an electric car charger.
The goal is to design a solution that could accurately plug in an electric car charger into a charging port.The testing environment is setup to simulate an electric carparked in the garage by a driver, the charging port position could thus be anywhere within a 0.5m x 1m rectangle, facing at any slight angle. Your design is allowed to be set up initially ina 1.5m x 2m rectangle, before the test fixture (the car) arrives in the charge port zone.The design is required to locate the charge port and plug in the charger plug autonomously within a 2 minutes testing time.
Index: This repo contains 4 main sections:
- computer_Vision [Folder]
- motor_control_arduino [Folder]
- bootingCode [Folder]
- Remote Controller [Folder]
For computer_vision folder: - OpenCVLearning [Folder] contains practices of detecting perfect circles and locate their centers - rough_locating [Folder] contains code of detecting the charging port roughly. - there is a file named "Demo of Finding the Circle on the port.mp4" that demonstrate the result
For motor_control_arduino folder: - there are codes used for milestone 1 to control the rover manually - these code will be transferred to python code that will be run by a Raspberry Pi in the future
For bootingCode folder: - this folder contains a bash code to run a python code once a raspberry Pi is powered - this is to ease the setup process for the charging robot
For Remote Controller Folder: - this folder contains the code for controlling rover via HC12 module (was not used at the end)