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.
Dr Amanda Prorok: [email protected]
Yijun He: [email protected]
Nicholas Hyldmar: [email protected]