| dc.contributor.author | Kane, Steven | |
| dc.contributor.author | Scott, Jonathan B. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Conference held at Dunedin, New Zealand | en_NZ |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-10T23:39:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-10T23:39:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-473-16099-9 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4911 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_NZ |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Electronics Research, Department of Physics, University of Otago | en_NZ |
| dc.relation.uri | http://enzcon.org.nz/Past_Proceedings/Proceedings_2009.pdf | en_NZ |
| dc.rights | © 2009 The author. | en_NZ |
| dc.source | The 16th Electronics New Zealand Conference | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | electronics | en_NZ |
| dc.title | The slot car stig: Performance and consistency of a slot car driven by a heuristic algorithm in an embedded microcontroller | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Conference Contribution | en_NZ |
| pubs.elements-id | 19123 | |
| pubs.finish-date | 2009-11-20 | en_NZ |
| pubs.start-date | 2009-11-18 | en_NZ |
