Self-Driving R/C Car Parks Itself Just Like a Lexus

From Makezine:

Here’s an overview of the project.

Layout of the car’s electronics system sans drive system

The electronics layout inside the car should look pretty familiar to anyone who has used Arduino to prototype a project. The Arduino MEGA connects with three ultrasonic sensors, two of which are mounted on the front of the car and one on the rear bumper. Three IR sensors also wire to the MEGA and are deployed in a similar fashion. A gyroscope and 9 degree-of-freedom inertial measurement boards round out the sensor package, but are placed within the chassis of the vehicle.

An Android phone, mounted to the car, handles computation of sensor data passed to it via Bluetooth.

Steering directions are transmitted from an onboard Android phone running vision processing and transmitted over Bluetooth, and the electronic speed control (ESC) and Adafruit motor shield handle the car’s acceleration (not shown).

http://makezine.com/2015/07/10/self-driving-rc-car-parks-just-like-lexus/