BLUETOOTH-NETWORKED TRAJECTORY CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Nowadays, increasing the efficiency of technical processes is center of investigation in many fields of engineering as, in this way, the use of raw materials and costs can be dropped. Here, control engineering plays an important role to achieve these objectives by stabilizing, speeding up the desired processes and making them more precise.In control engineering, practical work is of high importance. However, the cost of experimental platforms uses to be very high. So, it is quite difficult to have a reduced control engineers per platforms ratio.First, this work will present a low-cost autonomous vehicle laboratory experiment. The laboratory is based on LEGO Minsdstorms vehicles equipped with a new communications system based on a Bluetooth-to-infrared adaptor. After that, the paper will deal with the trajectory control of these vehicles.