Friday 10 August 2012

Research

On August 10, 2012: My supervisor, Dr. Zulkhairi has a great assignment for me to make a study on the regulation of the toy car. For the past two weeks, I made ​​a study of how the toy car operates. Through my observations, the important thing for this toy car is in the microcontroller program and how the two circuits which transmitters and receivers connected.

Monday 6 August 2012

Week 2

This week, I made a little research on the main idea of ​​this project. Since I did not have knowledge of the zigbee module, I have made some research for this module.

Main Idea


I am an interested in controlling an RC helicopter using a desktop/laptop. The two possible approaches for such a project :-
  1. Wire the RF remote to a PC either directly on the helicopter and use microcontroller.
  2. Install a microcontroller directly on the helicopter and use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or Zigbee to communicate with the microcontroller.

The end goal is to use motion tracking data from a sensor/programming into a feedback control system to develop algorithms to control flight paths. The motion data will come from a separate system.





Some of Zigbee's explanation is described in the page, Zigbee.