Hello all,
I am almost close to graduation and i am really happy because of what i got in my University Efficiency Test. I scored 420 points which qualified me to be on top of all CS students at the university of Jordan and 2nd place at the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan.
This is really nice because this is the best ranking i have ever got in all what i previously did of exams and grades.
My appologies to blog fans because the last post was written a long time ago and that’s because i have been busy working on soo many projects for my courses that had to be delivered at the end of the course including my graduation project which was a Robot Car controlled via PC with multiple other features.
Stay Tuned.
Rakan
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Hi Rakan,
Firstly congrats on ur score.I’m sure u’ve worked hard for it.
I am a final year engineering student (telecom) from Bangalore,INDIA.
As a matter of fact my project too is a robot car controlled via pc.An addition being the implementation of an alcohol sensor.
Could u give me the details as to how u went about it.
Thanks
Hi Dys,
Thank you for your comment.
Robotics is definitely a very good field to work in… i have really enjoyed working on my project although i was given no courses at the university talking about robotics field.
First of all, the idea was to create an application that would control the car movement. This was written in C# and inpout32.dll library which enables parallel port input/output operations on windows xp. The computer’s parallel port was connected to a transmitter circuit that contains radio frequency wireless transmitter which will send any bits coming in from the computer’s parallel port. On the car end, there was a receiver which will redirect it’s input to a 16f84a microcontroller that will translate the 4 bit’s received and perform the action. Some of the 4 bits combination were used for regular car movements, such as forward, backward … etc. And some other were meant to move the wireless camera left and right. As for the wireless camera which had an another wireless transmitter build in and the receiver connects to TV-Card on computer. We used a servo motor and an another microcontroller to take the bits received from the first PIC and do some PWM coding for the servo to move according to signal.
until now we have 1 pair of transmitter/receiver working to move car and camera and we already said that camera has it’s own transmitter/receiver so we dont have to worry about that?
As for the sensors, we have used an another pair of wireless transmitter receiver and also an another microcontroller that takes the input from the sensors and sends the signals to the application to show proper notifications on any blocks that might be anywhere around the car. But although i graduated, i am still working to improve the sensor’s, because they are not fully functional until now and i dont have alot of information about IR sensors and their properties in order to make them work 100%.
Hope that helps,
If you need any further information, please let me know and i will gladly help
Rakan