This document outlines an engineering design project involving autonomous buggies. The goal is to create buggies that can safely navigate a track under wireless control. Students will work in teams to implement increasing challenges - first a single buggy, then two buggies passing each other, and finally completing a variable number of loops. The buggies must detect and respond to obstacles. Electronics labs will involve developing infrared sensor modules, transmitter circuits for track locations, and receiver circuits. Computer science labs will involve programming the buggies' control systems using Arduino and C#. Testing of track components and parking functions is also covered. The project aims to develop skills in hardware and software co-design through a coordinated team effort.
This document outlines an engineering design project involving autonomous buggies. The goal is to create buggies that can safely navigate a track under wireless control. Students will work in teams to implement increasing challenges - first a single buggy, then two buggies passing each other, and finally completing a variable number of loops. The buggies must detect and respond to obstacles. Electronics labs will involve developing infrared sensor modules, transmitter circuits for track locations, and receiver circuits. Computer science labs will involve programming the buggies' control systems using Arduino and C#. Testing of track components and parking functions is also covered. The project aims to develop skills in hardware and software co-design through a coordinated team effort.
This document outlines an engineering design project involving autonomous buggies. The goal is to create buggies that can safely navigate a track under wireless control. Students will work in teams to implement increasing challenges - first a single buggy, then two buggies passing each other, and finally completing a variable number of loops. The buggies must detect and respond to obstacles. Electronics labs will involve developing infrared sensor modules, transmitter circuits for track locations, and receiver circuits. Computer science labs will involve programming the buggies' control systems using Arduino and C#. Testing of track components and parking functions is also covered. The project aims to develop skills in hardware and software co-design through a coordinated team effort.
This document outlines an engineering design project involving autonomous buggies. The goal is to create buggies that can safely navigate a track under wireless control. Students will work in teams to implement increasing challenges - first a single buggy, then two buggies passing each other, and finally completing a variable number of loops. The buggies must detect and respond to obstacles. Electronics labs will involve developing infrared sensor modules, transmitter circuits for track locations, and receiver circuits. Computer science labs will involve programming the buggies' control systems using Arduino and C#. Testing of track components and parking functions is also covered. The project aims to develop skills in hardware and software co-design through a coordinated team effort.
September 7, 2018 1 Index • Project goal • Objectives • Performance Evaluation criterion/activities • Features of TU buggy • Students contribution • Implementation, simulation and testing of various modules • Proposal (Lecture contents and Lab activities) • Evaluation Procedure
September 7, 2018 2 Buggy Lab (Project) (UTA-014) This is a Group Project and it is offered jointly by the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and the department of Computer Science Engineering to the IInd year students of all branch.
September 7, 2018 3 PROJECT GOAL The aim of this project is to create an autonomous vehicle that is under wireless supervisory control from a remote station (see Fig 1) and safely coexists with other trams. In effect, each group is required to design and implement a micro- simulation of the Lucas light rail system.
September 7, 2018 Fig 1 4
OBJECTIVES The project will introduce you to the challenge of electronic systems design & integration. The project is an example of ‘hardware and software co-design’ and the scale of the task is such that it will require teamwork as a co-ordinated effort. The vehicle (from now on called the “Buggy”) must meet a number of progressive design challenges:
September 7, 2018 5 Performance evaluation criterion
Bronze Challenge: Single buggy capable of following main track twice in a clockwise direction under full supervisory control and obeying the “Rules” of the track.
Buggy must be capable of detecting an obstacle whilst following the track,
coming to a temporary halt if it does.
It proceeds automatically when the obstacle is removed. The buggy must
safely park in the parking bay after the two loops. No external end-user manual control input is permitted once the initial start is signalled.
Messages transmitted to control your buggy, and messages received from the buggy must be displayed onscreen for debug purposes.
You must also display onscreen the state of the track and buggy at each gantry stop. September 7, 2018 6 Bronze Challenge
September 7, 2018 7 Sliver Challenge:
Two buggies on track going in opposite directions and following the “Rules” of the track.
The first buggy out of the parking lane goes in a clockwise direction until it reaches gantry 3. The second buggy then goes in an anticlockwise direction once around track and parks.
The first buggy then completes the loop and parks safely. Either buggy must be capable of detecting an obstacle and temporarily halting until the obstacle is removed.
Both buggies under full supervisory control. No external end-user manual
control input is permitted once the initial start is signalled. Again, control messages and state of the track and buggies must be displayed on screen. September 7, 2018 8 Silver Challenge
September 7, 2018 9 Gold Challenge
The Gold challenge is the same as the Silver Challenge but at the start the Supervisor PC must ask the end-user how many loops of the track the two buggies should perform before parking safely.
Therefore your code must be generalised. The buggies will perform the required number of loops in opposite directions and park safely. Either buggy must be capable of detecting an obstacle and temporarily halting until the obstacle is removed.
Both buggies under full supervisory control. No external end-user manual control input is permitted once the initial start is signalled. Again, control messages and state of the track and buggies must be displayed on screen.
September 7, 2018 10 Gold Challenge
September 7, 2018 11 Requirements of Project Electronics Lab:
• Buggy equipped with
• Microcontroller (Arduino Uno) • IR sensors (To detect path to be followed) • Ultrasonic sensor (To detect any obstacle on the track) • Receiver circuit (To receive signals from each gantry whenever passes through it) • Wireless Serial communication devices (X-Bee module) (To send/receive signals between computer system and Buggy
•Track with three gantries equipped with
• IR sensors (To send a unique pulse signal to the buggy receiver) • Transmitter circuit (To transmit three unique waveforms of different pulse width to corresponding gantries)
• Computer system ( To simulate C# program for supervisory control)
September 7, 2018 12 Buggy Module
September 7, 2018 13 Learning Outcomes of Electronics Lab (UTA 014)
Students should be able to:
• Design and test an IR sensor module which helps buggy to move on the given track as path follower.
• Design and test a transmitter circuit on PCB to generate waveforms of
different pulse width for three Gantries placed on the track.
• Design and test a receiver circuit on PCB for sensing Gantries placed on the track at various locations.
September 7, 2018 14 Gantry and its transmitter circuit using Attiny-45 IC
September 7, 2018 15 Pulses generated by transmitter circuit to recognize Gantries
September 7, 2018 16 Design of Boot loader to program ATtiny IC in transmitter circuit of gantry
September 7, 2018 17 Gantry Receiver circuit
September 7, 2018 18 Gantry Receiver circuit diagram
September 7, 2018 19 Gantry receiver circuit
September 7, 2018 20 Custom controller PCB layout design through software tool ‘Eagle’
September 7, 2018 21 ‘Eagle’ Software
September 7, 2018 22 Learning Outcomes of CSE Lab
Computer Science Lab:
Write codes (C# and Arduino) according to new add-on PCB circuits on TU buggy for Bronze, silver and Gold challenges in supervisory mode.
September 7, 2018 23 Testing of Gantry transmitter-receiver circuit and parking provision through C# and Arduino programming
September 7, 2018 24 Silver Challenge with TU &TCD buggy
