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Making of Micromouse. By Krishna Mahesh Computer Science of Engineering Aryabhata Institute of Technology and Science. www.aryabhatians.com. INTRODUCTION. Micromouse is an autonomous robot designed to reach the center of an unknown maze in shortest possible time and distance.
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Making of Micromouse By Krishna Mahesh Computer Science of Engineering Aryabhata Institute of Technology and Science www.aryabhatians.com
INTRODUCTION Micromouse is an autonomous robot designed to reach the center of an unknown maze in shortest possible time and distance . www.aryabhatians.com
M I C R O C O N T R O L L E R MOTOR DRIVER LEFT MOTOR SENSOR ELECTRONICS SESNSORS RIGHT MOTOR www.aryabhatians.com
Basic components of Micromouse: • Sensors • Motors • Microcontroller • Batteries www.aryabhatians.com
SENSORS • Your mouse is going to need sensors to tell it about itself and its environment. • These are used to detect the presence or absence of walls and to verify your position in the maze. • They will also be important in ensuring that the mouse maintains an appropriate path without hitting any walls www.aryabhatians.com
Sensors • Commonly used sensors in the field of robotics • IR Digital sensors • IR analog sensors www.aryabhatians.com
IR Digital sensors • Transmitter • IR led connected to 38KHz oscillator • Receiver • TSOP1738 • Advantages • Detects an obstacle at a distance more than 1meter if tuned perfectly. • No ambient light effect. • Easy to use. www.aryabhatians.com
Designing a transmitter : • Use IC 555 in Astable mode • For approximate 50% duty cycle take Ra = 1 k ohm www.aryabhatians.com
Receiver : www.aryabhatians.com
IR Analog sensors • Transmitter • IR LED • Receiver • IR Photodiode • Advantages: • Can measure distance up to 15 cm. • Disadvantages: • Responds to IR rays present in ambient light. • Intensity of reflected rays is non-linear with respect to distance of obstacle www.aryabhatians.com
IR Analog sensor www.aryabhatians.com
Modulate IR rays to avoid Ambient light effect : Astable oscillator at frequency greater than 1KHz Transmitter IR led ADC of Micro-controller High pass filter , Cut-off freq more than 300Hz Peak Detector Receiver IR Photodiode obstacle www.aryabhatians.com
High-Pass filter : www.aryabhatians.com
Peak Detector: www.aryabhatians.com
Errors involved in mouse movement : Forward error: Forward errors begins when a mouse is either too close or too far from the wall ahead www.aryabhatians.com
Errors involved in mouse movement : Offset error : Offset errors, which happens often, is caused by being too far to the left or to the right as you pass through a cell www.aryabhatians.com
Errors involved in mouse movement : Heading error: Heading error is known as pointing at walls rather than down the middle of the cell www.aryabhatians.com
Commonly used Sensor arrangement : • Top Down • Side Looking www.aryabhatians.com SENSORS
Top Down www.aryabhatians.com
Side looking sensors : www.aryabhatians.com
Initialize ADC Select ADC channel Start ADC ADC conversion complete N0 Yes Read ADC value Stop www.aryabhatians.com
Side looking Sample code for ADC conversion in AVR controllers : Unsigned int left_adc; left_adc = adc(0xE0); unsigned int adc(unsigned int temp) { ADMUX = temp; //selects ADC channel ADCSRA |= 0x40; //starts ADC while(conversion_not_over()); //waits till ADC conversion completes ADCSRA |= 0x10; // clears ADIF flag return(ADCH); // returns ADC result } int conversion_not_over(void) { unsigned int temp; temp = ADCSRA; temp = temp & 0x10; // checks for ADIF flag return(!temp); } www.aryabhatians.com
Reducing error using PD controller : Error PD controller Motors www.aryabhatians.com
Error calculating: • If wall is on both sides • err = left_adc – right_adc; • If err is +ve • Mouse is near to left wall and as a correction it has to move towards right wall • If wall is only on leftside • err = left_adc – reff_value; • If err is +ve • Mouse is near to left wall and as a correction it has to move towards right wall • If wall is only on rightside • err = right_adc – reff_value; • If err is +ve • Mouse is near to right wall and as a correction it has to move towards left wall www.aryabhatians.com
Implementing PD controller: • err_d = err – err_past; • adj = err * kp + err_d * kd ; • kp is proportional controller constant • kd is derivative controller constant • The value of adj is used to either speed up or speed down one of the wheel . www.aryabhatians.com
DC Motor • DC Motors are small, inexpensive and powerful motors used widely. • These are widely used in robotics for their small size and high energy out. • A typical DC motor operates at speeds that are far too high speed to be useful, and torque that are far too low. • Gear reduction is the standard method by which a motor is made useful . • Gear’s reduce the speed of motor and increases the torque www.aryabhatians.com
Choosing a DC Motor • DC Motor with Gear head • Operating voltage 12V • Speed • Depends on our application • Some available speeds in market • 30 RPM • 60 RPM • 100 RPM • 150 RPM • 350 RPM • 1000 RPM www.aryabhatians.com
Drive basics of DC Motor www.aryabhatians.com
Bi-Direction control of DC Motor H-Bridge Ckt using transistors for bidirectional driving of DC motor www.aryabhatians.com
H-Bridges in IC’s to reduce the drive circuit complexity • The most commonly used H-Bridges are L293D and • L298 • L293D has maximum current rating of 600ma • L298 has maximum current rating of 2A • Both has 2 H-Bridges in them • These are designed to drive inductive loads such as • relays, solenoids • Can be used to drive 2 DC motors or 1 stepper motor www.aryabhatians.com
STEPPER MOTOR • STEPPER MOTOR is a brushless DC motor whose rotor rotates in discrete angular increments when its stator windings are energized in a programmed manner. • Rotation occurs because of magnetic interaction between rotor poles and poles of sequentially energized stator windings. • The rotor has no electrical windings, but has salient and/or magnetized poles. www.aryabhatians.com
5 – Lead stepper 4 – Lead stepper 6 – Lead stepper 8 – Lead stepper www.aryabhatians.com
Full Step driving of Stepper Motor Full step wave drive www.aryabhatians.com
Full Step driving of Stepper Motor Full step 2 phases active www.aryabhatians.com
Half Step driving of stepper motor www.aryabhatians.com
Choosing a Stepper motor • 12 V or 5 V operating voltage • 1.8 degree step • 6 Lead • 250 to 500 ma of current • or • Coil resistance of 20 ohms to 40 ohms • Size and shape depends on application • In most of the robotics cube shaped motors are preferred with frame size of 3.9 to 4 cm www.aryabhatians.com
Commonly used IC’s for driving Stepper motor • ULN2803 • It has 8 channels • It channel has maximum current rating of 500ma • can be used to drive 2 unipolar stepper motors • L293d • L297 & L298 • UDN2916 www.aryabhatians.com
ULN2803 www.aryabhatians.com
Bi – Polar driving of Stepper Motor www.aryabhatians.com
5 – Lead stepper 4 – Lead stepper 6 – Lead stepper 8 – Lead stepper www.aryabhatians.com
Sample program for(p=0;p<=20;p++) { PORTD=0xA9; delay(65); PORTD=0x65; delay(65); PORTD=0x56; delay(65); PORTD=0x9A; delay(65); } void delay(unsigned int m) { unsigned int n; while(m--) for(n=0;n<=100;n++); } • With this SW Steppers can’t be controlled individually www.aryabhatians.com
SW for steppers : • Use timers to create delay. • Use Clear Timer on Compare match • or • Normal Mode www.aryabhatians.com
Initialize timer Interrupt routine Give Pulse to stepper Start Timer Is Stepper target reached Update Output compare register No Wait Reti Yes Stop timer www.aryabhatians.com
Chopper Driving: • For better performance of Steppers they should be over driven and current should be limited . • For example a 5 V 500ma motor can be driven at more than 15V but current in the coil should be limited to approximately 500ma . www.aryabhatians.com
Methods of current limiting : • Traditional method of using a resistor of appropriate power in series with common terminal. • This method is not recommended as there will be huge power wasted in the series resistor. www.aryabhatians.com