Route Identification and Direction Control of Smart Car Based on CMOS Image Sensor

This paper is designed for the 2nd Freescale Cup National Undergraduate Smart Car Competition. With MC9S12DG128 single chip and smart car model supplied by the committee, a CMOS image sensor is applied to detect the black track on white raceway, which extends the detection range and is helpful to predict the forward path. In this paper, ten-line pixels in an image are analyzed to locate the black track, and the PD algorithm based on PID is employed to control the direction and angle of the steering gear respectively. By repeated testing, the smart car can run stably on the given raceway at a high speed.