ECE497 Project Electric Car

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Team members: Junxuan Hou, Zhen Wei

Grading Template

I'm using the following template to grade. Each slot is 10 points. 0 = Missing, 5=OK, 10=Wow!

00 Executive Summary
00 Installation Instructions 
00 User Instructions
00 Highlights
00 Theory of Operation
00 Work Breakdown
00 Future Work
00 Conclusions
00 Demo
00 Late
Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Score:  10/100

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Executive Summary

This project interfaces the Beaglebone with motor-based electronic mini-car. The gpio pins are used to control the motor on the car to remote it. Some additional interfaces, such as a IR sensor to control the moving direction of the car, and an analog input to control the speed of the car, are considered to be done based on the progress of the project.

Currently we have the small car which can be controlled by keyboard, or IR sensor. With the keyboard controlling, the car can go foreword and backward, make a turn to both right and left. With the IR sensor controlling, the car can keep space before the barrier in front of item.

At first, we use the H-bridge to control four motors which connect to four wheels for the car. And use the GPIO pins to control this H-bridge. And then use a analog input pin to get the signal feedback from the IR sensor.

Depending on the time, in the feature time, there are lots of works can be done for this robot car.

Packaging

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Parts List:

  1. sharp 2d120x f IR sensor X1
  2. L293 H-Bridge Chip X1
  3. 1N4004 Diodes X8
  4. 100 ohm Resistors X2
  5. DC Brush motor X4
  6. On/Off Switch X1
  7. Robot Kits X1
  8. Beaglebone X1

Installation Instructions

The Github Link for this project is https://github.com/weizhen1883/Electric-Car.git.

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Future Work

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thumb‎ Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder