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      The slot car stig: Performance and consistency of a slot car driven by a heuristic algorithm in an embedded microcontroller

      Kane, Steven; Scott, Jonathan B.
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      Kane, S. & Scott, J. (2009). The slot car stig: Performance and consistency of a slot car driven by a heuristic algorithm in an embedded microcontroller. The 16th Electronics New Zealand Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand; 18-20 November 2009. p.1-4.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4911
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      We present theory and measured performance of an autonomous slot car driven by a heuristic algorithm on a typical track. The hardware consists of a PIC 8-bit single-chip microcontroller with various sensors driving a standard permanent-magnet (PM) brushed dc (BDC) motor in a mechanically-standard Scalextric platform. We present some interesting results concerning the relative difficulty of apparently-balanced lanes on a track. The car achieves optimum lap times with high consistency. Measured performance agrees with theoretical expectation. The consistency of performance allows the impact of experimental changes to be reliably assessed.
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      2009
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      Conference Contribution
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      Electronics Research, Department of Physics, University of Otago
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      © 2009 The author.
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