Abstract:
Parking is a major issue for a driver of any age which can be complex and difficult in some
situations. This project enables us to design a prototype for cars that can park and retrieve
back automatically. The main objective of the project is to enable the driver to park vehicle
using a simple command automatically without any effort of the driver. Since the auto car
parking is a new trending feature in the latest cars yet they have limitation in market because
they are expensive and are under development. The focus of the project is to implement and
enable a low cost and reliable system that can be implemented on any vehicle. We designed a
prototype parking algorithm that can perform parking autonomously. This system includes a
series of ultrasonic sensors and motors interfaced with microcontroller which controls the car.
Arduino is used as the microcontroller. The car first sense its surroundings with a series of
ultrasonic sensors placed around it. Whenever a car’s sensor detects a vacant parking space, it
apprises the microcontroller to direct the car in that specific vacant space of a parking area.
For image processing needed in our project, we have used a camera module with Raspberry
pi 2 model B.
