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Arduino-Based Smartphone-Controlled Car

This document summarizes an Arduino-based smartphone controlled robot car. The robot receives commands from a smartphone via Bluetooth to control two DC motors. An Arduino board is used to interface with the Bluetooth module and motor driver. The user can control the robot's movement by tilting their smartphone forward, back, left or right using a Bluetooth controller app.

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Arduino-Based Smartphone-Controlled Car

This document summarizes an Arduino-based smartphone controlled robot car. The robot receives commands from a smartphone via Bluetooth to control two DC motors. An Arduino board is used to interface with the Bluetooth module and motor driver. The user can control the robot's movement by tilting their smartphone forward, back, left or right using a Bluetooth controller app.

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Arduino based Smartphone Controlled

Robot Car
https://www.electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/smartphone-arduino-based-robot-car?
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Dr P.S. Manoharan (left) is a professor in electrical and electronics engineering, Thiagarajar


College of Engineering, Madurai, and S. Naveen (right) is an electronics hobbyist
August 21, 2017
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Nowadays smartphones can be used to control a host of electrical and


electronic devices including motors, music systems and lights. Here we present an
Arduino based robot car, which can be controlled using an Android smartphone having
ArduinoRC application installed in it. This bot receives commands from your smartphone
with the help of a Bluetooth module. The authors’ prototype is shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1: Authors’ prototype of the arduino based
robot car

Arduino based robot car circuit and working


The circuit diagram of smartphone controlled Arduino based robot car is shown in Fig. 2.
Pin mapping of the Arduino Uno is shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 2: Circuit diagram of
smartphone-controlled Arduino based car
The ATmega328 chip on the Arduino Uno board comes with a bootloader, which allows
you to burn the program to the chip without an external hardware programmer. After the
chip is programmed, it can be removed from the board. The board can be powered from
USB connection or external power supply such as batteries or AC/DC adaptors. After
connecting the power supply to Vin pin, you get regulated 5V and 3.3V DC on the
respective pins of the Arduino board. 5V is used to power the HC-05 Bluetooth module.

Fig. 3: Pin mapping of Arduino


Uno
Serial pins 0 (RX) and 1 (TX) of Arduino are used to communicate with HC-05 module. Pins
4 through 7 are connected to H-bridge motor driver L293D IC. Out of these four pins, pins
5 and 6 provide 8-bit PWM output using analogWrite( ) function defined in the asc_car.ino
Arduino sketch. Pins 2 and 3 of Arduino (not used in this project) can be used for
additional functions like controlling lights, horn, etc.

Construction and testing


A 9V battery supply is used to power the Arduino Uno with its positive terminal connected
to Vin pin and negative terminal connected to GND pin. 5V and GND (ground) pins from
the Arduino are connected to HC-05 Bluetooth module. RX (pin 0) and TX (pin 1) pins of
the Arduino are connected to TX and RX pins of the HC-05 module, respectively.

Pins 4 through 7 of the Arduino provide controlling signals for the motors. The Arduino
outputs a very small voltage from these pins. So, an additional power supply is required
to produce enough torque for the motors, for which H-Bridge L293D module is used. You
can provide additional 12V power supply to pin 8 (VCC2) of L293D to drive the motors.
Output pins 4 through 7 of Arduino are connected to IN1 through IN4 pins of L293D,
respectively. Ground pins 4, 5, 12 and 13 of L293D are connected to ground pins of the
Arduino. The two 100 RPM geared DC motors (M1 and M2) are directly connected to
output terminals of the L293D.

Mechanical arrangement of the bot or car is completed by attaching two wheels to the
two motor shafts. Army directional wheels should be used on the front side of the car for
moving towards left or right. (Castor wheel was used as the front wheel during testing at
EFY Lab.)

The Arduino Uno can be programmed with the Arduino software (IDE). Switch off the
Bluetooth module or disconnect it from Arduino while burning the asc_car.ino sketch into
the Arduino Uno.

Connect smartphone with HC-05 module. After all the connections and mechanical
arrangements are complete, download Arduino Bluetooth Controller app from Google
Play Store in Android smartphone. There are many similar apps available on Play Store.
This project uses ArduinoRC—an Arduino Bluetooth Controller app developed by
Estacado’s Ltd.

Open the ArduinoRC application in Android smartphone and connect with the HC-05
device by typing ‘1234’ or ‘0000’ as pin for pairing with HC-05.

Feeding values in the app.


Press ‘Proceed’ option to connect your smartphone with the HC-05 module. You will see a
screen on your Android phone as shown in Fig. 4. Select ‘Vehicle’ mode, open the menu in
the top-right corner and select ‘Set Commands’ option. Set value ‘4’ for ‘Stop’ button in the
application. Similarly, feed values 0, 1, 2 and 3 for Gesture_Front, Gesture_Left,
Gesture_Right and Gesture_Back, respectively.
Fig. 4: Vehicle mode

Connect 12V battery supply to L293D module.


Now the bot is ready to be controlled with your smartphone. You can control your bot by
tilting the smartphone in different positions. Tilt your phone forward or backward to
move the bot in forward or backward direction. Similarly, tilt your phone to the right or
left to make the bot take right or left turn, respectively.

With a slight tweak in the circuit, you can also use this app to control lights, horns and
music systems by tilting the smartphone in different directions.

Download source code

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