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Implementation of Digital Image Processing Using NI myRIO and Arduino

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 2018 International Conference on Applied Science and Technology (ICAST)
Implementation of Digital Image Processing Using
NI myRIO and Arduino Mega 2560 as Controller
On Rover Bogie Robot
Arif Ainur Rafiq Electrical Muhamad Yusuf Electrical
Engineering Department State Engineering Department State
Polytechnic of Cilacap Cilacap, Polytechnic of Cilacap Cilacap,
Indonesia Indonesia
arifainurrafiq@gmail.com muhamad.yusuf.1986@gmail.com
Abstract— the need for exploration of a place or area is
sometimes necessary for research, documentation or special
purpose in that area. It is like researching animal life in the
forest, documenting historical sites or searching for the victim
because of a natural disaster and an area with a difficult
terrain. However, in some such places, there are many possible
dangers if we send humans to carry out exploratory missions.
The realization involves making a simulation of the system,
designing the software, designing the physical system
mechanically and electrically and finally implementing the
controller to an NI myRIO hardware platform and Arduino
Mega 2560. This research will design a rover robot to explore
in various places that have a variety of terrain characteristic.
Rover robot is designed with passive suspension rocker-bogie
system. With this system, the robot can go through a variety of
heavy terrain, a hill, sandy terrain and unstable terrain with a
certain height. An algorithm is created to process the images or
video that captured by the camera. The controller is
implemented using LabVIEW myRIO 2016 SP2 development
environment. Arduino will control the rover bogie motion
using velocity reference inputs via a joystick. The realization of
this project is successful, however further testing and dynamics
analysis is needed in order to control the robot and image
processing optimally.
Keywords—Digital image processing, Rover bogie robot, NI
myRIO, Arduino Mega 2560
The need for supervision over certain areas, such as
offices, industry, banking and so on more and more. Not
only in areas that are easy to reach but also in areas that are
difficult to access [1], such as in the mining exploration area
or areas with post-disaster status. These things require a
media that can be used for monitoring.
Currently, exploration a place is needed for research
purposes, exploration, documentation, or search for
something in the area being explored. Such as animal life
research, forest exploration, historic cave documentation, or
the search for victims in the area of natural disasters.
However, in certain places as mentioned above, sometimes
many dangers can happen if we send humans directly. For
example, exploration of wild forests, exploring caves that
are prone to collapse, and the search for victims in post-
disaster areas that still have the potential for subsequent
disasters.
Based on the description above, this research will design
and implement a robot that can explore in places that have a
variety of terrain characteristics. The robot is designed in the
form of a robot rover or robot explorer using passive
suspension system rocker bogie. By using the bogie rocker
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Pujono
Mechanical Engineering Department
State Polytechnic of Cilacap Cilacap,
Indonesia djovent@yahoo.com
suspension system, this explorers robot can go through a
variety of terrains such as climbing obstacles with a certain
height and pass through sandy terrain or unstable terrain [1].
Rover bogie also has characteristics that it is suitable for use
in areas prone to disaster or areas that are difficult to reach
when natural disaster.
This bogie rover robot is designed using Arduino
Mega2560 as the control of four DC PG-36 motors, wireless
joystick to build remote control system and NI myRIO 1900
as a processor of the image obtained from the camera
integrated with LabVIEW, so the images and video obtained
can be displayed in real time. Images obtained from the
camera will be processed by LabVIEW via image
processing tools. In this image processing will be
enlightened from the picture quality. This control and image
capture system will make the robot able to perform the
exploration mission efficiently.
II. MATERIAL AND METHODS
In this research will be done in two stages, software
design and hardware design.
LabVIEW
Design
System
Planning
Hardware Robot Rover
Design Bogie
Fig 1 Design Planning
Fig 1 is a block diagram the system to be made. System
design is divided into two part, the design of software and
hardware design. In software design will be subdivided into
two parts, they are programming in arduino mega and
programming design in LabVIEW. The design of the
hardware is how the robot rover bogie is made.
Robot rover bogie made using aluminum material that
has good enough resistance. Arduino Mega2560 is used to
control six PG-36 DC motors as the driving force of the
robot rover bogie, also for wireless joystick to control the
robot rover bogie movement.
Arduino
Power Supply Motor Driver
Mega2560
Wireless Robot Rover
Joystick Bogie
Fig 2 Diagram Block for Rover Bogie Robot
A. Arduino Mega2560 (UART / RS232) which can work without clock path due to
The Arduino Mega 2560 is a microcontroller board each sender and receiver.
based on the ATmega2560. It has 54 digital input/output
pins (of which 15 can be used as PWM outputs), 16 analog
inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 16 MHz crystal PS2_RECEIVER
VCC GND CLK ATT CMD DAT
oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ISP header,
and a reset button.

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containing one p-channel low side MOSFET with an
integrated driver IC in one package. Due to the p-channel

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high side switch the need for a charge pump is eliminated

thus minimizing EMI. Fig 6 Joystick Wireless Schematic

D. DC Motor
DC motors consist of one set of coils, called armature
winding, inside another set of coils or a set of permanent
magnets, called the stator. Applying a voltage to the coils
produces a torque in the armature, resulting in motion.In this
study used six PG-36 type DC motor that serves as a motion
media from robot rover bogie.
MA IN_PROCESSOR
ARDUINO MEGA2560 R3

GND VCC GND VCC

RESET
AREF
L_IS L_IS PB7/OC0A/OC1C/PCINT7
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L_EN R_EN PF0/ADC0 10 L_EN R_EN
A1 PB4/ OC2A/PCINT4
PF1/ADC1 9
A2 PH6/OC2B
PF2/ADC2 8

Fig 4 BTS 7960B motor driver circuit LPW M RPW M A3 PH5/OC4C

LPW M RPW M
PWM

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COMUNICATION

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receiver of the data sent from the transmitter module. There
is a controller in charge of communicating with a play
station console.
Fig 5 Pin configuration in Joystick wireless PS2
The communication used is synchronous serial, i.e. data
sent one by one through the data path. To coordinate
between the sender and receiver there is one clock line. This
is what distinguish serial sync with asynchronous serial
Fig 7 DC motor schematic
E. Rover Bogie Robot
This Robot uses the rocker bogie suspension system,
which was specifically designed for space exploration
vehicles have deep history embedded in its development.
The term “rocker” describes the rocking aspect of the larger
of the larger links present each side of the suspension
system and balance the bogie as these rockers are connected
to each other and the vehicle chassis through a selectively
modified differential.

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 Fig 8 Rocker bogie suspension system
In the system, “bogie” refers to the conjoining links that
have a drive wheel attached at each end. Bogies were
commonly used to bare loading as tracks as idlers
distributing the load over the terrain.
Fig 9 Rocker Bogie Mechanism
As accordance with the motion to maintain centre of
gravity of entire vehicle, when one rocker moves up-word,
the other goes down. The chassis plays vital role to maintain
the average pitch angle of both rockers by allowing both
rockers to move as per the situation. As per the acute design,
one end of a rocker is fitted with a drive wheel and other
end is pivoted to a bogie which provides required motion
and degree of freedom.
Fig 10 Realization of the rover bogie robot
The rocker-bogie design consisting of no springs and
stub axles in each wheel which allows the chassis to climb
over any obstacles, such as rocks, ditches, sand, etc that are
up to double the wheel’s diameter in size while keeping all
wheels on the ground maximum time. As compared to any
suspension system, the tilt stability is limited by the height
of the center of gravity and the proposed system has the
same.
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Fig 11 Rover bogie front side
System employing spring tend to tip more easily as the
loaded side yields during obstacle course. Dependent upon
the center of overall weight, any vehicle developed on the
basic of rocker bogie suspension can withstand a tilt of at
least 50 degrees in any direction without overturning which
is the biggest advantage for any heavy loading vehicle. The
system is designed to be implemented in low speed working
vehicle, such heavy truck which works at slow speed around
10 centimeters per second so as to minimized dynamic
shocks and consequential damage to the vehicle when
surmounting sizeable obstacles.
F. Brief About LabVIEW
LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering
Workbench) is a graphical programming language used as a
powerful and flexible instrumentation and analysis software
system in industry and education. LabVIEW uses a
graphical programming language to create programs called
Virtual Instruments or VI in a pictorial form called a block
diagram, eliminating a lot of the syntactical details or other
programming language like C and MATLAB that use a text-
based programming approach. LabVIEW also includes
many tools for data acquisition, analysis and display of
results. The analysis library contains a multitude of function
in signal generation, signal processing, filtering and statistic.
It is available for all the major platforms and is easily
portable across platforms [2].
Each VI contains 3 parts:
• The front panel contains the user interface like
knobs, push button, graphs, and many other
controls (inputs) and indicators (outputs).
• The block diagram is the VI’s source code
constructed in G and is the actual executable
program. The block diagram has other level Vis
and built in functions. The blocks can be connected
using wires to indicate the dataflow. Front panel
object has corresponding terminals on the block
 diagram to allow dataflow from the user to the
program and back to the user
• Sub-Vis is analogous to subroutines in
conventional programming languages.
G. NI myRIO
The National Instrument myRIO-1900 is a portable
reconfiguration I/O (RIO) device that can be used to
implement control for mechatronics systems. The myRIO
platform is targeted for academic environment that are
interested in highly portable IO device to be used in
academic project [3].
Fig 12 The NI myRIO 1900 device
The myRIO has several specifications that suitable for
projects, such as:
• Xilinx Z-7010 processor 667 MHz (ARM Cortex A9 x2
cores 28 nm process NEON SIMD, VFPv3 Vector Float.
• Memory: NV, 256 MB, DDR3 512MB, 533 MHz, 16
bits.
• FPGA type as processor.
• Wireless: IEEE 802.11 b,g,n ISM 2.4 GHz 20 MHz.
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• Breakout Board Support
• 2 ports of 16 Digital I/O lines.
• 3 axis accelerometers.
• Max power consumption: 14 W
• Typical idle: 2.6 W
• LED’s
After installing the required software for NI myRIO, start by
following a customized getting started experience design to
ensure that success with NI myRIO and access to NI myRIO
resources directly from the LabVIEW getting started window
and the device ready to be used.
Fig 13 Status monitors NI myRIO
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H. Image Processing
Image processing is a method to perform some operations
on an image, in order to get an enhanced image or to extract
some useful information from it. It is a type of signal
processing in which input is an image and output may be
image or characteristics or features associated with that
image [4]. Nowadays, image processing is among rapidly
growing technologies. Image processing basically includes
the following three steps:
• Importing the image via image acquisition tools;
• Analyzing and manipulating the image;
• Output in which result can be altered image or
report that is based on image analysis.
There are two types of methods used for image
processing they are analogue and digital image processing.
Analogue image processing can be used for the hard copies
like printouts and photographs. Image analyses use various
fundamentals of interpretation while using these visual
techniques. Digital image processing techniques help in
manipulation of the digital of the digital images by using
computers. The three general phases that all types of data
have to undergo while using digital technique are pre-
processing, enhancement and display, information extraction.
In this article, the image processing will use the software to
manipulate and enhanced the image; it is LabVIEW [6].
An image may be defined as a two- dimensional function,
f (x, y), where x and y are spatial (plane) coordinates, and the
amplitude of f at any pair of coordinates (x, y) is called the
intensity or gray level of the image at that point. When x,y
and the intensity values of f are all finite, discrete quantities,
we call the image a digital image. The field of digital image
processing refers to processing digital images by means of a
digital computer. Note that a digital image is composed of a
finite number of elements, each of which has a particular
location and value. These elements are called picture
elements, image elements, peels, and pixels. Pixel is the
terms used most widely do denote the elements of a digital
image [5].
Digital image processing focuses on two major tasks:
• Improvement of pictorial information for human
interpretation.
• Processing of image data for storage, transmission
and representation for autonomous machine
perception.
Fig 14 Digital Image concept
Some argument about where image processing ends and
fields such as image analysis and computer vision start. The
continuum from image processing to computer vision can be
broken up into low-, mid- and high-level processes [7].
 III. RESULT AND ANALYSIS

A. Image Processing Result

Image processing in LabVIEW need the steps for
capture and processing the images

Fig 16 Rover bogie robot

In order to overcome vertical obstacle faces, the front

wheels are forced against the obstacle by the center and rear
wheels which generate maximum required torque. The
rotation of the front wheel the lifts the front of the vehicle
up and over the obstacle and obstacle overtaken. Those
wheels which remain in the middle, is then pressed against
the obstacle by the rear wheels and pulled against the
obstacle by the front till the time it is lifted up and over.

Fig 17 Block diagram for single image

Fig 28 show the front panel from the LabVIEW block

Fig 15 General step for Image processing in LabVIEW
diagram for single image result.
In this stage will be tested image processing using
LabVIEW and NI myRIO software. The first is testing for a
single image. From the results below, it can be seen that the
NI myRIO with the camera can give the appropriate results.
This test uses a 2-megapixel webcam camera with
brightness level in the room.
B. Rover Bogie Robot Testing
Depend on the testing result, as per the research it’s find
that the rover bogie system can reduce the motion by half
compared to other suspension system because each of the
bogie’s six wheels has an independent mechanism for
motion and in which the two front and two rear wheels have
individual steering systems which allow the vehicle to turn
in place as 0 degree turning ratio.

Fig 18 Front panel for single diagram

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Fig 19 shows the block diagram for take the image with
while loop, it means that the program can take picture
continue with the different condition.
Fig 19 block diagram image processing using LabVIEW
LabVIEW has the ability to create stand-alone
executable applications, which run at compiled execution
speeds. LabVIEW also give some advantages is the fact that
it includes built in applications, such as the IMAQ Vision
for image processing.
Fig 20 Front panel with image result
IV. CONCLUSION
In this study it can be concluded that the bogie rover robot
can run according to the settings and commands of the
joystick. Camera installed inside the robot can also capture
images according to the expected conditions. We gave an
overview of Digital image processing using LabVIEW. We
describe the use of powerful visualization tools developed
using NI myRIO with LabVIEW and a few of the
demonstration developed were provided.
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