Creation of a model traffic of autonomous vehicles based on Arduino

The development of technologies and their integration into society makes the creation of models and algorithms of process automation relevant. One of these tasks is the creation of an autonomous vehicle. The article describes an example of creation of a self-driving transport model based on the Arduino board. The statement of the task is done, the technical characteristics of the model, the conditions of autonomous movement, and also external obstacles, such as traffic lights, pedestrians, traffic signs are determined. The model uses a linear light sensor for controlling itself. An empirical study of the concept of autonomy of vehicles was carried out: collecting information about various implementations of autonomous driving and its supporting systems, analysing the technical characteristics of the hardware for building the system, developing options for autonomous driving using various equipment, experimental testing of hypotheses about the suitability of an autonomous control system, and testing and evaluating car operation. The autonomous movement model was tested on a radio-controlled car (scale 1:10). To control the movement the Arduino MEGA microcontroller was selected.