I'm building an self-navigating robot with an arduino, an ultrasonic sensor, and two DC motors. I'm currently within the process of coding the robot but I've discovered I have an unusual problem; whenever I run the project via the USB cable operations run fine, however once I take the cable out and run the system on batteries alone performance diminishes.
I have checked the code thoroughly, however I don't understand how this could be an issue that's coding related. I also (as part of the testing) built a basic program which only operated the motors, and was able to run this via USB and via batteries alone with no difference in performance.
So what possible reasons could there be for a drop in performance? I have included a link to a youtube video I had taken of it earlier below to maybe give a better understanding of how performance diminishes:
(Also it could be important to note if I take the cable out while motors are currently moving performance stays at where it should be)
Thanks!
Serial
to write to the serial monitor?