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Grading Criteria

Wireless Power Transfer System

Abstract

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Wireless power transfer or wireless energy transmission is the transmission of electrical power from a power source to a consuming device without using solid wires or conductors. The technology dates back when Tesla first created his coil and the project is based on that idea. As the world is gaining momentum on wireless communication technology, there is a niche market for wireless power transfer for low power devices. This project explores one such idea and implementation for wireless power transfer from source to destination. The project is limited to near field application of such technology. The project does not explore the EMI/EMC aspects of the design.

Objectives & Introduction

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Team Members & Responsibilities

• Team Member 1
  • Haroldo Filho - Lead Software Engineer
• Team Member 2
  • Hemant Raman - Lead Hardware Engineer
• Team Member 3
  • Hassan Naveed - Software Implementation
• Team Member 4
  • Guangyu Chen - Software Implementation

Schedule

 -Light an LED wirelessly
 -Test ADC: read 0~3.3V range
 -Test Nordic wireless: send/receive ADC value

 -Find channel frequency: 7.7MHz
 -Define wireless package structure: status and commands
 -Spec/order motor

 -Implement wireless communication
 -Define software architecture layers
 -Define error code and handler
 -Implement motor control

 -Evaluate ADC reading dynamics and design LPF
 -Implement software architecture layers

 -SW/HW Integration and testing.

Parts List & Cost

Design & Implementation

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Hardware Design

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The hardware block diagram for the transmitter is: File:Tchart.PNG‎

Hardware Interface

In this section, you can describe how your hardware communicates, such as which BUSes used. You can discuss your driver implementation here, such that the Software Design section is isolated to talk about high level workings rather than inner working of your project.

Software Design

For the software design, we define a layered architecture where each layer takes its services from the layer directly below it. The integrity of layered system was important as to ensure that no race conditions are generated where two tasks wait indefinitely for each other. The layers are:

• WIFI : Receive wireless packet from mesh network and pass the packet to communication layer for decoding.

• Communication : Decode the packet and execute corresponding actions.

• Motion Control : Control the motor to move to the desired position.

Package structures between three layers:

Wireless Data Package Structure
|| 1 byte   | length - 1 ||
|| commands |    Data    ||

Status Package Structure
||   1 byte   |      1 byte      |      1 byte      |     x byte     ||
|| Error byte | ADC upper 4 bits | ADC lower 8 bits | Motor position ||

Error byte Structure
|| 8th bit  | 7th bit  | 6th bit  | 5th bit  | 4th bit  | 3rd bit  | 2nd bit  | 1st bit  ||
|| reserved | reserved | reserved | reserved | reserved | reserved | reserved | Busy bit ||

Motion Control Package Structure
|| 1 byte  |   1 byte    |   1 byte    |   1 byte    ||
|| Command | Parameter 1 | Parameter 2 | Parameter 3 ||

Implementation

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Testing & Technical Challenges

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My Issue #1

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Conclusion

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Project Video

• Youtube video of hardware prototype

Project Source Code

• Sourceforge Source Code Link

References

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank our instructor Preet for always inspiring and encouraging us to learn and and explore new projects related to embedded systems. We really appreciate his patience and his guidance.

References Used

List any references used in project.

Appendix

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