MATLAB Based ROS Car

I need to work on a MATLAB based ROS Driven car model. The available codes are for the differential drive based models only. I need to modify them so that I could run them for a car instead on a differential model. How should I proceed to accomplish the same?

Also, i need to stop the car model on a red light and need to perform related tasks, fir this, do I need to start with CAN Communication (provided, I do not have much idea about them)? Thanks

Answer 1

[Sebastian Castro]

You likely want to implement your model using the Ackerman steering model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry

With this model, you are controlling one wheel speed and one steering angle, as opposed to two wheel speeds in the differential drive model. I am sure you can find a model online.

Also, stopping at a red light has nothing to do with CAN, which is a communications protocol. Maybe you want to be doing some kind of image processing/computer vision to detect traffic lights?

- Sebastian