Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

1. Motors working correct?

Run the serial console (Arduino IDE: CTRL+SHIFT+M, 19200 Baud) and press 'd' and ENTER for menu. Then press '1' and ENTER to run the motor test.

1. Any unexpected sensor triggering?

Run the serial console (Arduino IDE: CTRL+SHIFT+M, 19200 Baud), and start the robot. Each time a sensor triggers, the counter of that sensor will increase. See description of each sensor are below. Now when your robot does something unexpected, have a look if any sensor counter increased to locate the problem.

1. Some sensor not triggering?

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1. Bluetooth not connecting?

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Console output

When the robot starts, it outputs something like this in the serial console:

 START 
 Ardumower rXXXX
 press...
   d for menu
   v to change console output (sensor counters, values, perimeter etc.)

In the Serial Console you got many Information about your Robot. Here ist what it means :

--- Messages from the serial ---

t - time of current machine state (ms)

l - loop () - cycles per second

v - Verbose mode selected sensor (0 = counts / 1 = sensor values ​​/ 2 = sensor values​​)

- Current machine status (FORW, REV, ROLL etc.)

- After-home-drive? (1/0)

spd - control / speed motor: left (PWM), right (PWM), mower (speed)

sen - current timeout counter engine: left, right, Mower

bum - Bumpercounter: left, right

son - ultrasonic distance-below: counter

pit / roll - inclination (calculated with Accel sensor)

com - Compass Course

by - inductive loop detector: counter

bat - Battery voltage

chg - charging current

--- Menu Konsole ---

'd': menu for testing, adjust IMU, Bluetooth

'v': monitorMode (show Value not Counter

'h': drive home

'p': track perimeter

'l': simulate left bumper

'r': simulate right bumper

's': simulate lawn sensor

'm': toggle mower motor

'c': simulate charging

'+': rotate 90 degrees 

'-': rotate 90 degrees

'3': activate model RC

'0': OFF

'1': Automode motorMowEnable

Further links

1. Diagnostic