Jorge Rancé
Published © GPL3+

Arduino Obstacle Avoidance Robot with Ultrasonic HC-SR04

Arduino Nano based object avoidance robot which uses 3 HC-SR04 sensors in order to detect potential obstacles and correct its trajectory.

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Arduino Obstacle Avoidance Robot with Ultrasonic HC-SR04

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino Nano R3
Arduino Nano R3
×1
L9110 H-bridge module
×1
DC motor (generic)
×4
Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)
Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)
×3
Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1
3.000 mAh USB battery
×1
Coretec 'Tiny 4WD' Robot Rover chassis
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Schematics

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Code

First code

Arduino
const int frontEchoPin = 7;
const int frontTriggerPin = 6;
const int leftEchoPin = 11;
const int leftTriggerPin = 10;
const int rightEchoPin = 9;
const int rightTriggerPin = 8;
const int motorL1 = 2;
const int motorL2 = 3;
const int motorR1 = 4;
const int motorR2 = 5;
volatile float maxFrontDistance = 25.00;
volatile float frontDuration, frontDistanceCm, leftDuration, leftDistanceCm, rightDuration, rightDistanceCm;
volatile float maxLeftDistance, maxRightDistance = 20.00;
void setup() {
  // serial
  Serial.begin(9600);
  // ultrasonic
  pinMode(frontTriggerPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(frontEchoPin, INPUT);
  pinMode(leftTriggerPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(leftEchoPin, INPUT);
  pinMode(rightTriggerPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(rightEchoPin, INPUT);
  // motors
  pinMode(motorL1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(motorL2, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(motorR1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(motorR2, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
  // front distance check
  checkFrontDistance();
  if (frontDistanceCm < maxFrontDistance) {
    Serial.println("Too close");
    checkLeftDistance();
    delay(20);
    checkRightDistance();
    delay(20);
    if (leftDistanceCm < rightDistanceCm)
      moveRight();
    else if (leftDistanceCm > rightDistanceCm) {
      moveLeft();
    }
  }
  else {
    Serial.println("OK");
    moveForward();
  }
  // left distance check
  checkLeftDistance();
  if (leftDistanceCm < maxLeftDistance) {
    Serial.println("Left too close");
    delay(20);
    checkLeftDistance();
    delay(20);
    checkRightDistance();
    delay(20);
    if (leftDistanceCm > rightDistanceCm)
      moveForward();
    else if (leftDistanceCm < rightDistanceCm) {
      moveRight();
    }
  }
  // right distance check
  checkRightDistance();
  if (rightDistanceCm < maxRightDistance) {
    Serial.println("Right too close");
    delay(20);
    checkRightDistance();
    delay(20);
    checkLeftDistance();
    delay(20);
    if (rightDistanceCm > leftDistanceCm)
      moveForward();
    else if (rightDistanceCm < leftDistanceCm) {
      moveLeft();
    }
  }
}
void checkFrontDistance() {
  digitalWrite(frontTriggerPin, LOW);  //para generar un pulso limpio ponemos a LOW 4us
  delayMicroseconds(4);
  digitalWrite(frontTriggerPin, HIGH);  //generamos Trigger (disparo) de 10us
  delayMicroseconds(10);
  digitalWrite(frontTriggerPin, LOW);
  frontDuration = pulseIn(frontEchoPin, HIGH);  //medimos el tiempo entre pulsos, en microsegundos
  frontDistanceCm = frontDuration * 10 / 292 / 2;  //convertimos a distancia, en cm
  Serial.print("Distance: ");
  Serial.print(frontDistanceCm);
  Serial.println(" cm");
}
void checkLeftDistance() {
  digitalWrite(leftTriggerPin, LOW);  //para generar un pulso limpio ponemos a LOW 4us
  delayMicroseconds(4);
  digitalWrite(leftTriggerPin, HIGH);  //generamos Trigger (disparo) de 10us
  delayMicroseconds(10);
  digitalWrite(leftTriggerPin, LOW);
  leftDuration = pulseIn(leftEchoPin, HIGH);  //medimos el tiempo entre pulsos, en microsegundos
  leftDistanceCm = leftDuration * 10 / 292 / 2;  //convertimos a distancia, en cm
  Serial.print("Left distance: ");
  Serial.print(leftDistanceCm);
  Serial.println(" cm");
}
void checkRightDistance() {
  digitalWrite(rightTriggerPin, LOW);  //para generar un pulso limpio ponemos a LOW 4us
  delayMicroseconds(4);
  digitalWrite(rightTriggerPin, HIGH);  //generamos Trigger (disparo) de 10us
  delayMicroseconds(10);
  digitalWrite(rightTriggerPin, LOW);
  rightDuration = pulseIn(rightEchoPin, HIGH);  //medimos el tiempo entre pulsos, en microsegundos
  rightDistanceCm = rightDuration * 10 / 292 / 2;  //convertimos a distancia, en cm
  Serial.print("Right distance: ");
  Serial.print(rightDistanceCm);
  Serial.println(" cm");
}
void moveBackward() {
  Serial.println("Backward.");
  digitalWrite(motorL1, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorL2, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorR1, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorR2, LOW);
}
void moveForward() {
  Serial.println("Forward.");
  digitalWrite(motorL1, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorL2, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorR1, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorR2, HIGH);
}
void moveLeft() {
  Serial.println("Left.");
  digitalWrite(motorL1, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorL2, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorR1, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorR2, LOW);
}
void moveRight() {
  Serial.println("Right.");
  digitalWrite(motorL1, HIGH);
  digitalWrite(motorL2, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorR1, LOW);
  digitalWrite(motorR2, HIGH);
}

GitHub alseTv1 repository

Credits

Jorge Rancé

Jorge Rancé

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Linux DevOps interested in hobby electronics and hacking on Arduino, Raspberry Pi and ESP8266 / ESP32.

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