Hi,
I’ve been tasked with sourcing parts for a car that meets the following requirements, and having 0 experience with RC other than watching channels such as rctestflight and rclifeon, I have no idea where to start. I’ll start out with a short list of potential requirements:
- 500m radio range (ideally speced for 1-1.5km for redundancy)
- Long mission time (potentially as high 24h with solar panels)
- Travel at an average speed of 0.3km/h (10cm/sec)
- Ability to go up to 5km/h if needed (obviously this will sacrifice mission time)
- RC as well as Autonomous control
- GPS
So far in my research, I’ve come to the conclusion that I likely wanted to get an Holybro 433Mhz SiK RX/TX set, and use them for Ardupilot ↔ Mission planner communication. I’ve also decided that for RC control it’s probably just easiest to use Mission Planner’s RC_OVERRIDE with a controller plugged into my laptop, however if there’s a problem with this idea please let me know.
I have no idea which autopilot to select, however it needs to be able to run Ardurover and potentially control 4 ESCs as well as 1 servo (although most likely only 1 or 2 ESCs).
I also have no idea about which ESCs or motors I’d pick, but I figured it was best to sort out the more complicated side of radios and autopilot first and select those afterwards.
I would appreciate any feedback regarding my suggested configuration, as well as some pointers for an autopilot and potentially even ESC/motor combos for such an application