Week of 11/15/21 - Weekly Report 11

Plans for next week:

• Start testing the ordered RC car with a Microcontroller and code

• Keep working on individual systems

Group Meeting memo:

• Discussed testing and implementation of systems on the RC car with Dr. Asghari.

Project Progress:

Jordyn:

• Continue working on PCB implementation for CAN Bus using Eagle software

• Meeting with Dr. Asghari to go over work on PCB

• Work on organizing and updating sections of final report

Quinn:

• Worked on getting the RC car ready for testing.

• Continued working on getting real time GPS coordinates using the Adafruit Ultimate GPS Logger Shield with external GPS Antenna .

• Continued Working on setting up a Raspberry Pi camera with Dr.Asghari.

• Ordered Raspberry Pi 4 B incase that all attempts on Raspberry Pi 3 B do not produce required results.

• Burned old version of Raspberry Pi OS image provided by Dr.Asghari on to SD card for OpenCV testing on Raspberry Pi 3 B.

• Completed functional decomposition and WBS for Point to Point Navigation Module of Smart Car.

Jacob:

• Tested algorithm with temp servo and temp motor. Will have to switch to a the Car signals to show that the system will work with the car servo and motor.

DJ:

• Tested the first phase of the Adaptive Cruise Control program using green and red LEDs to simulate the start and stop of the motor when the lidar sensor is a certain distance away from the object.

• Added to the ACC code to allow the speed setting to be chosen using button presses. The plan for next week is to implement and test the ACC system with buttons to select the speed setting.

Group:

• Tested the signals that are passed to the servo and the motor. The signals sent to the servo can be seen in Figures 1-5. The signals sent to the motor can be seen in Figures 6-9. It can be seen in the figures that the duty cycle changes with different inputs from the RC car controller. These signals can be used to control the servo and the motor.

Figure 1: Servo Clock idle

Figure 2: Servo Idle

Figure 3: Servo Voltage Level

Figure 4: Servo Left turn

Figure 5: Servo Right Turn

Figure 6: Motor clock idle

Figure 7: Motor Idle

Figure 8: Motor forward

Figure 9: Motor Reverse