Technical Gannt Chart for our team

To start any project, the technical gannt chart is very important to the team. It can push us to do for project and it is more systematically to the design. The photo below is shown the technical gannt chart designed by the Touch The Sky.

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Research method on our product

The development of the mass capacitive sensor involves research, step by step. The steps are affected by other factors, which cause some delay in certain cases. Each of the steps was planned well before proceed and sometimes interfere between each another occurred due to speed up the process especially in the cases where delay happened. Table 1 shows the overall flow of the project. The steps involved are elaborated briefly:

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Table 1 : Flowchart of the project

Literature review and study are the ways for understanding of the title of the project. Research has been carried out on the papers, journals, books and Internet resources to create a strong background on the related topics involved in the project. The research conducted about the definition of stepper motor, microcontroller technology, stepper motor types (bipolar and unipolar specifically), motor performance characteristics, and the application of the stepper motor. This step also involved the complete understanding of the general view of the project’s scope.

Fast Diagram of our product

In the previous post, we already discuss the executive summary of our product. By seeing the fast diagram below, you will more understand about our product as well.

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Executive Summary of Our Project Design

Our product is Test Board for Stepper Motor. The main purpose of designing this product is for educational kit for a university student. However to make the learning process more interesting, we design the test board for the stepper motor in the form of car control. The main component of this product is stepper motor, PIC microcontroller, encoder and LCD (liquid crystal display). Moreover to control the car control we are using wireless remote by radio frequency.

The car is built with three wheels. For this product we only used one stepper motor and it only control one wheel of the car and the other two wheels is used to stabilize the car. It means that our car only can run forward and backward. Since our purpose of design this project is for educational kit, we ignore the car control problems to turn left or right.

In technically, we are design circuit by referring to the books, internet and also by our own idea. Then we are using Proteus 7 professional to design the complete circuit. Moreover to interface PIC with the stepper motor and LCD, we are using C programming. The complete program is simulated in the MPLAB IDE v8.10 and it is transfer to the PIC using PICkit V2.55 program.

There are many experiments we are doing in a process of building this product. We are dividing our product into several technical parts such as encoder, LCD, speed control, remote control and also radio frequency. Each of the part is experimented separately and any changing will be done due to the time.

The stepper motor will be control by a remote control using radio frequency. The input will be send directly to the microcontroller and microcontroller will send the data to the motor drive. Therefore the motor drive will drive the motor. The output of the motor will be send to the encoder to calculate the speed and from the encoder, the speed will display to the LCD to display the output.