Microcontroller Board For Robot Applications

Justin, Looh (2009) Microcontroller Board For Robot Applications. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The purpose of this project is to design and fabricate a microcontroller board suitable for robot applications. The preferred choice of microcontroller chip is the PIC MCU family from Microchip. The board fulfills the requirements of common autonomous mobile robots, such as the line foliowing robots and the "pick and place" robots, whose size ranges from small to medium size. The microcontroller board is an attempt to improve upon the AR40B autonomous robot controller from Cytron Technologies, and comparison will be made against each other. The reason behind using a microcontroller for robot control is that it packs adequate processing speed, program memory, and 110 ports inside a compact and affordable chip. The completed microcontroller board is able to interface easily with external electric/electronic components, such as DC brushed/brushless motor and digital/analog sensors. The microcontroller board has undergone extensive testing to ensure that the finished product will provide a proven and reliable platform upon which robot builders can develop their models rapidly and efficiently, without being hindered by technical problems from the controller board.

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