6-Wheel Rover Project

Welcome to my newest adventure, the design, construction, and testing of a robot that can go beyond my house and explore the great outdoors! This is a collection of documents, some of them short, some of them long, where I

Let’s start from the ground up, shall we? I took the easy route and bought a premade 6-wheel robot chassis. I would, however, urge you to think about building your own, or at least purchasing a different model. While my

If you’ve followed along so far, you already know that the robot electronics are all powered using a single 11.4-volt LiPo battery, mounted on the base unit.  And you also know that the output of that battery is fed to

There are two LiPo batteries powering the robot. We have already looked at the motor controller and its associated parts and wiring, including the 7.4-volt 2-cell LiPo battery, used to power the motor and ESCs. Now let’s take a look

Let’s take a look at how we are controlling the six motors in the rover chassis. Motor Arrangement My 6-wheeled outdoor robot rover is driven by six brushed DC motors. These motors are wired in parallel, three on each side