Outline

The main goals of our project are as follows:

• Provide controlled power to the tank treads on either side of an assembled vehicle
• Remotely control speed, turning, and forward/backward motion using an IR sensor

In order to acheive these goals, the following challenges/design steps are expected to take place:

• Mounting two motors on either side of the vehicle to power the treads
• Designing/using tank treads with proper motor-driven gears to allow the vehicle to move over obstacles
• Coding the IR sensor to receive the transmitted signals from the remote control and then causing each tread of the tank to have three states, possibly mapped over a range of values with a potentiometer.
• Three states include: Clockwise motion, Counterclockwise motion, and no motion.
• The middle of a range of potentiometer values mapped to motor rotation may be coded to be 0 rpm, and either end of the range of potentiometer values will be the positive and negative maximum angular velocity of the motors.