PC Control Car

Dear Anish,I am confused with your both Qs!. Can you just put everything about what you want to know? It seems you are a fresher. You must put more to understand your questions.

Start by writing a description of how it is intended to operate.

I agree with the others.....you need to give us what you know....and what you are having problems with. Then we have something realistic to work with.

What you aren't going to get is someone to do your entire project for you to hand in from scratch.

You've out done yourself with this question! A rule 76 question, sorry make that 76d.

I don't know what it is either.

It should be possible but I would not like to let a M$ controlled car loose on public.

I downloaded some code some time ago (I felt a 3% urge to use it for . . . whatever) but cannot remember the name I used to save it under (CV-Works or something).

With this code one can do shape / movement detection using a CCTV camera and even face recognition (to avoid running over the Sheriff).

It should be possible to move the car around in a empty parking lot

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Do a search on "DARPA Challenge Vehicles", that should give you an idea of what is going to be involved. I hope you have a very VERY large budget. The laser scanners used to avoid collisions cost around $5,000.00 US each, you would need a minimum of 3, usually 5. That's before you even get to the software, cameras, actuators and other sensors you need. The PC is the cheapest part of it. Typical budgets for these are in the neighborhood of $3-5 million, but it should be noted that the top prize is I think something like $50 million. Not sure about that last part though.

well thank u all for the reply...i am makin a car with a camera which send the video to the computer and actually car is controlled by the computer..there is a microprocessor in it for interfacing i am using a rf module for wireless transmission..i want help in vedio processing part...i am using a wireless camera in my car...

I'm glad I don't live in or near Nepal, and I pray you do not bring that thing here.

A "camera" cannot distinguish depth of field, i.e. distance, with anywhere near enough accuracy to be safe on the road with other drivers. Despit what you see on TV shows and movies, a single camera has the same problem of depth perception as a one-eyed man, but the "computer" in the herad of the one-eyed man has a quantum leap more processing capability to make up for it. That said, the closest I have come to dying in an auto accident was as a passenger in a car driven by a one-eyed man, who over reacted to a sudden appearance of an object in the road ahead because he was unsure of how far ahead it was.

This has already been done at the University of California, Berkley. The equipment installed on the car ran about $500,000 and it anticipated the moves of drivers in front, on the sides, and behind it. There were a number of systems besides video processing including laser scanning devices for depth perception and GPS.

I'll let you do your own searching now that you have an idea of where to look. The search effort itself is a good learning experience.