robotic-controlling-unit

Description

This is sources from my High School project, in which I tried to build Robotic Controlling Unit.

Structure

Robotic controlling unit shall consist from two parts:

1. Robotic platform, which includes itself the controller mainboard and low-level operations mainboard. The controller mainboard is Intel Atom PC with Linux OS and low-level operations mainboard is ATMega88 MCU and it`s connections.
2. Operator station, an laptop with Wi-Fi card and Operator station software.

Software

Operator station

This software gave the possibility to use an Laptop as operator station. It sends the commands remotely to the robotic platform and display the measurement values to its operator. Written mostly in C# (Visual Studio 2010) and uses the joystic as main controlling device.

Middle level controller

This is the middle-level software, generally purposed to as bridge between operator station (protocol over TCP/IP) and MCU (by using UART). This part is written in C and shall run as Linux daemon.

Driver and sensor controller unit

This part consists from ATMega88 firmware (ASM), which is used to controll the drivers (in my case it is two Maxon DC motors (12V)) and multiple sensors. It communicates with upper controller by using UART.

Library

• Linux Socket Programming by Sean Walton, 2001;
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 2nd Edition by W. Richard Stevens (Author), Stephen A. Rago, 2007;
• Микроконтроллеры AVR семейства Mega by А. В. Евстифеев, 2007;

License

TBD