Design and Implementation of Automatic Steering Control

Abstract

The main aim of using active steering control is to increase safety and to reduce both accidents and drivers work load. The objective of this project is to design and develop a steering control system for the path tracking of autonomous vehicle & to understand the stability of the vehicles on curved road. An autonomous vehicle that can drive itself to a destination without its driver have to recognize the driving Environment. In this paper, a steering control system for the path tracking of autonomous vehicles is described. The steering controller controls the steering actuator to follow the desired steering angle. A servo motor is installed to control the steering handle. GPS shows the geographical coordinates which specifies any given location on the earth surface as latitude and longitude. Ultrasonic sensor used for detecting the obstacles. A magnetometer compass shows the quadrants. Arduino UNO board is used like a mother board in this project.