Wireless Remote Motor Controller

ECE 445 Project Proposal Wednesday, February 8th, 2005

Team Members: Joseph Owusu Sara Shahzad Masakatsu Suzuki TA: Scott Anderson

I. Introduction
A. Overview
We found this project idea and a couple of others on the ECE Power Webpage that immediately draw our interest. We decided to go with this project in specific because of its remote control capabilities, which we figured will be fun to do and also expose us to the RF field of electrical engineering, which none of us really have worked with before, and thought it would be a good learning opportunity. All of the team members have a power background and therefore, are pretty conversant with the motor controller part. Adding the remote control capability is going to be our biggest challenge, and will push us out of our comfort zone, thereby helping us to learn more---this is all ECE 445 is about anyways. We also found a couple of motor controllers on the market, but they all came without remote control and pretty expensive as well. So we figured that if we can successfully build this motor it could be very marketable at low-cost, and could be a good basis for a very efficient robot or maybe a wireless car.

B. Objectives
The objective of this project is to design and build a wireless remote motor controller which will come in handy for applications such as golf cart. The user will be able to do the following operations: start, stop, accelerate and decelerate the motor, by pushing a button or switch from a distance. Benefits Inexpensive Simple and efficient to use. Easy control. Features Allows adjustable speed control Motor will be able to run 150 W continuously, and 250 W for at least one minute. Requires less power ( power from 12V lead acid battery) Remote control capability

II. Design
A. Block Diagram

B. Block Descriptions:
1) Power Supply: The power supply will be a 12 V lead acid battery. It will supply the power to the converter circuit and the control circuit. 2) User Inputs: The input will be simple buttons/switches that will allow a user to execute the following operations: start, stop, accelerate, decelerate the motor, and also possibly change the motor direction. The input signal will be sent to the control circuit through the wireless interface. 3) Wireless Interface: The interface will receive a signal from the user input and send it to the control circuit. The RF module will send the encoded signal from a transmitter to a receiver. The received signal will be decoded to appropriate signal, and it will be fed into the control circuit. 4) Control: The control circuit will determine the speed and the direction of the motor. One of the received signals received from user inputs will be a control reference. It

will be fed into the PWM circuit to generate an appropriate duty ratio that will be sent to the gate drive of the buck converter. The control circuit also will receive a direction/stop command from the user inputs. It will be fed into the H-Bridge circuit in order to allow the motor to stop or change its direction. 5) H-Bridge: The H-Bridge circuit will enable the motor to choose the direction that it is supposing to be running in and also to come to a complete stop if that is what the user instructed. H-Bridge circuit will receive signals from the control circuit for the user defined action. 6) Buck Converter: The buck converter, or step-down converter, is a switching dc-dc converter that will produce output voltage lower than the source. It will have an input voltage of 12 V from the lead-acid battery and will be designed to output voltage from 0 V- 12 V. The output voltage will determine the duty ratio from the control circuit and this output voltage of the converter will be interfaced to the motor to control its speed. 7) Motor: A 12 V permanent magnet dc motor will be supplied by a user. It will be used up to continuous load at 150 W and 250 W for one minute.

C. Performance Requirements
Input voltage of 12 Vdc Output voltage ranging from 0 V to 12 Vdc, depending on the user specification. Motor loads ranging upto continuous 150 W or 250 W for a minute. Efficiency greater than 85%. Current ripple 5%. Voltage ripple less than 2%. Wireless control in distances in excess of 300 ft.

III. Verification
A. Testing Procedures
1) Buck Converter The converter performance will be tested with lab generated signal for various duty ratios. The testing will ensure that the performance requirement is met. The converter circuit will be modified to meet the requirement. 2) Control A) The PWM circuit will be tested to ensure that it outputs appropriate PWM waveforms for different control reference. After verifying the PWM waveforms, the converter will be tested again with the PWM implementation. B) The H-Bridge circuit performance will be tested after it is implemented to the converter. It will be tested by observing how converter output responds with different control signal for the H-bridge circuit. 3) Wireless Interface To test the RF module, lab generated signal will be sent from receiver and the output signal will be observed on an oscilloscope. After ensuring that signal is transmitted successfully, this step will be repeated by sending the encoded signal and observing the decoded signal. 4) User Input The input device will be tested by ensuring that the device inputs generate appropriate signals to be sent to wireless interface. 5) The system After all of the subsystems are tested and verified, the entire system will be tested. The system will be tested for verification of performance requirement. The system will be modified accordingly.

B. Tolerance Analysis
The performance of the buck converter is very crucial for our design. The output of the converter is suppose to get adjusted in accordance with the user input and hence control the speed of the motor. The converter should be tested such that the motor always receives appropriate amount of power. The efficiency of the converter is also expected to be pretty high and the duty cycle and the switching frequencies will be vital testing parameters.

IV. Cost and schedule:

A.Labor Costs:
The formula for labor cost for each person is: Ideal hourly salary * actual hours spent * 2.5 The ideal hourly salary is $30. We each spent 20 hours a week for 10weeks. That gives a total labor cost of $ 15,000.

B.Part Costs:
PARTS Transmitter/ Receiver Encoder/Decoder Microcontroller PWM chip Core H-bridge chip MOSFETS Resistors Capacitors Diodes Switches/Keypad Antenna/coaxial cable Wires Heat sink Total Part Cost COST $16.00 $8.00 $8.00 $2.00 $15.00 $8.00 $6.00 $5.00 $2.00 $3.00 $5.00 $10.00 $2.00 $15.00 $105

Total cost = Labor Cost + Part Cost = $15,105

C. Schedule

week
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Masa
Proposals, ordering of parts and assembly of RF modules. Design of gate drive and control circuits/Testing of RF modules. Design review Assembly of control/ PIC programming PIC programming Interfacing user input with RF module Mock-up Demos Putting all components together Testing and troubleshooting Testing and troubleshooting Demo/presentation Final paper

Joseph
Proposals, ordering of parts and assembly of RF modules. Testing of RF modules and PSPICE simulation of converter Design review Assembly of control/PIC programming PIC programming Interfacing user input with RF module Mock-up Demos Putting all components together Testing and troubleshooting Testing and troubleshooting Demo/presentation Final paper

Sara
Calculations and design of buck converter PSPICE simulation of conveter Design review Assembly of buck converter PIC programming Interfacing user input with RF module Mock-up Demos Putting all components together Testing and troubleshooting Testing and troubleshooting Demo/presentation Final paper

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