F14: Team3-Self Driving Car

Grading Criteria

• How well is Software & Hardware Design described?
• How well can this report be used to reproduce this project?
• Code Quality
• Overall Report Quality:
  • Software Block Diagrams
  • Hardware Block Diagrams

    Schematic Quality

  • Quality of technical challenges and solutions adopted.

Objectives & Introduction

Team Members & Responsibilities

• Sensor Controller
  • Team 1: Deepak Yadav & Vinod Pangul
• Motor Controller
  • Team 2: Naghma Anwar & Shiva Moballegh
• I/O Unit
  • Team 3: Shreeram Gopalakrishnan & Sreeharsha Paturu Gangadhara
• Communication Bridge & Android
  • Team 4: Johnny Yam, Kevin Beadle & Chia Pin Tseng
• Geographical Controller
  • Team 5: Bhushan Gopala Reddy, Ryan Marlin & Rishikesh Nagare
• Master Controller
  • Team 6: Shashank Tupkar, Bhargava Leepeng Chandra & Preeti Benake

Schedule

Team Schedule

Sl.No	Start Date	End Date	Task	Status	Actual Completion Date
1			Order RC Car	Completed on time
2			Order Other parts(Sensor/LCD/Motor Controller...)	Ongoing
3	10/06/2014	11/15/2014	Sensor Team task	Ongoing
4			Motor Controller Team task	Ongoing
5			I/O Team task	Ongoing
6			Communication Bridge + Android Team task	Ongoing
7			Geographical Controller Team task	Ongoing
8			Master Controller Team task	Ongoing
9			Complete project integration	???
10			Testing-1	???
11			Testing-2	???

Sensor Team Schedule

Sl.No	Start Date	End Date	Task	Status	Actual Completion Date
1	10/6/2014	10/18/2014	Order Ultra Sonic Sensors	Got one sensor, 3 more to order
2	10/9/2014	10/9/2014	Sensor Data Sheet review with the team	Completed	10/9/2014
3	10/9/2014	10/16/2104	Sensor code development	Ongoing
4	10/17/2014	10/18/2014	Sensor software testing	Ongoing
5	10/19/2014	10/24/2014	Sensor real time testing
6	10/13/2014	10/18/2014	Light sensor code Development	Ongoing
7	10/13/2014	10/18/2014	Accelerometer sensor code Development to detect tilt	Ongoing
8	10/19/2014	10/20/2014	Light Sensor and Accelerometer Testing
9	10/25/2014	10/31/2014	Battery status controller circuit Design
10	11/01/2014	11/02/2014	Battery status-circuit Testing
11	11/03/2014	11/09/2014	Complete Hardware testing-1
12	11/10/2014	11/15/2014	Complete Hardware testing-2

Geographical Team Schedule

Sl.No	Start Date	End Date	Task	Status	Actual Completion Date
1	10/4/2014	10/13/2014	Research and Order GPS module	Received LCD Display	10/7/2014
2	10/7/2014	10/18/2014	Interface GPS module with LPC1758	Ongoing
3	10/18/2014	10/25/2014	Parse GPS data and setup constructs to send appropriate data
4	10/14/2014	10/18/2014	Receive Compass module from Preet and interface	Ongoing
5	10/25/2014	11/9/2014	Testing and Mapping of GPS coordinates
6	11/9/2014	11/18/2014	Integrating and finish testing
7	11/18/2014	11/25/2014	Testing

IO Team Schedule

Sl.No	Start Date	End Date	Task	Status	Actual Completion Date
1	10/7/2014	10/13/2014	Research and Order LCD Display	Ordered LCD Display	10/13/2014
2	10/14/2014	10/21/2014	Interfacing LCD Display with LPC1758
3	10/28/2014	11/04/2014	Set-Up dedicated buttons for Start, Stop etc...
4	10/21/2014	10/28/2014	Communication with other controllers
5	11/04/2014	11/11/2014	Testing
6	11/11/2014	11/18/2014	Testing
7	11/18/2014	11/25/2014	Testing

Motor Team Schedule

Week No.	Start Date	Planned End Date	Task	Status	Actual End Date
1	9/30/2014	10/7/2014	Study about the R/C Car's motor specifications	Done	10/7/2014
2	10/7/2014	10/14/2014	Study motor controller concepts. Do the PWM interface	In progress	TBD
3	10/14/2014	10/21/2014	Set up communication with other controllers	Scheduled	TBD
4	10/21/2014	10/28/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
5	10/28/2014	11/4/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
6	11/4/2014	11/11/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
7	11/11/2014	11/18/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD

Master Controller Team Schedule

Week No.	Start Date	Planned End Date	Task	Status	Actual End Date
1	9/30/2014	10/7/2014	Study about the R/C Car's motor specifications	Done	10/7/2014
2	10/7/2014	10/14/2014	Study motor controller concepts. Do the PWM interface	In progress	TBD
3	10/14/2014	10/21/2014	Set up communication with other controllers	Scheduled	TBD
4	10/21/2014	10/28/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
5	10/28/2014	11/4/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
6	11/4/2014	11/11/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD
7	11/11/2014	11/18/2014	TBD	TBD	TBD

Parts List & Cost

Item#	Part Desciption	Vendor	Part Number	Qty	Cost
1	RC Car	Amazon.com	Traxxas 37076 Rustler VXL	1	$$$.$$
2	Sonar sensor	maxbotix (Free-given by Preet)	LV-MaxSonar-EZ1 MB1010	1	Free
3	LCD Display	New Haven	NHD-0216B3Z-FL-GBW-V3-ND	1	$$$.$$
	Total Cost				$$$.$$

Conclusion

Project Source Code

• Sourceforge Source Code Link

References

References Used

http://www.maxbotix.com/documents/MB1010_Datasheet.pdf