Totally Speed

About the project

Totally Speed is a french team from the engineering school INSA Toulouse! Our project this year, as fourth-year automation and electronics students, is to develop and improve a superfast autonomous car. See you on the racing circuit at the NXP Cup in 2021!

Project info

Difficulty: Moderate

Platforms: NXP

Estimated time: 4 months

License: GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL3+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

FRMD-KL25Z FRMD-KL25Z The Freescale KL25Z hardware features a Kinetis L series microcontroller built on ARM Cortex M0+ core. x 1
FUTUBA S3003 Servomotor FUTUBA S3003 Servomotor The servomotor is used to steer the front wheels. x 1
Bluetooth module BEE V2.0 Bluetooth module BEE V2.0 The bluetooth module is used to discuss with our computer. x 1
Alamar car model LANDZO Alamar car model LANDZO It is our car model for the Cup. x 1
Camera Pixy1 Camera Pixy1 Our camera for line detection. x 1

Software apps and online services

Code Warrior Code Warrior We use Code Warrior as it is recommended for the NXP Cup

Hand tools and fabrication machines

3D-printing 3D-printing Somes pieces of our car are 3D-printed. x 1

Story

Each year our engineering school INSA Toulouse participates in the NXP Cup. The project is lead by a different team each year as it is a fourth-year student project for automation and electronics students. The challenge is to understand the work that the previous teams have done. Our goal is then to enhance solutions that have already been found and implement new solutions to improve our car. 

It is now time for the presentations : here is our car !

In the following video you can see our car taking a turn. It is the start of our project. 

For now the car is not very fast. This year's goal is to make our car faster while ensuring that it can take turns. For this we need to improve the code for : larger amplitude for front wheels steering, management of the speed (decrease the speed before a turn for example or make it possible to drive fast around the bend), less sensitive line detection. This year the challenge is also to implement obstacle detection, as there will be a cube to avoid on the racing circuit.


We finish our project, please find some photos and videos right after.


Schematics, diagrams and documents

General system diagram in December 2020

System diagram for our car.

Code

Our finally code

General repository for the code

All code and schematics are available on the Github repo.

Credits

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