Synopsis of

Mobile Phone Operated Buggie/Robot

To be submitted by Patel Nisarg (4SN06EC028) Chavda Nirmal (4SN06EC010) Rohan (xxxxxxxxxx)

1. Introduction
Robotics is an interesting field where every engineer can showcase his creative and technical skills. Pleasing aspect of robotics is that a robot can be made indigenously by any one. In this competitive world there is need for every enthusiastic, from amateur to professional, to make a simple robot having innovated applications and with robust control. Mobile phones today became an essential entity for one and all and so, for any mobile based application there is great reception. In this scenario making a mobile phone operated land rover is a good idea. Conventionally wireless controlled robots utilize RF circuits, which had limitations like limited range, limited frequency ranges and controls. But a mobile phone controlled robot can hold up these limitations. It has a robust control, unlimited range (coverage area of the service provider), no fear of interfering with other controllers and we can have as much as 12 controls. Although the appearance and capabilities of robots vary vastly, all robots share the features of a mechanical, movable structure under some form of control. This control of robot involves three distinct phases perception, processing and action. In common the preceptors are sensors mounted on the robot, processing is done by onboard microcontroller or processor and task (action) is performed using motors or with some other actuators.

2. Technical Detail
In the present project the robot is controlled by a mobile phone which makes a call to the mobile phone attached to the robot. In the course of a call if any button is pressed a tone corresponding to the button pressed is heard at the other end of the call. This tone is called DTMF tone. The robot perceives this DTMF tone with the help of a phone stacked in the robot. The processing of the received tone is done by Atmega 32 microcontroller with the help of DTMF decoder, HT9170. The decoder decodes the DTMF tone in to its equivalent binary digit and this binary number is sent to the microcontroller. The microcontroller is preprogrammed to take a decision for any given input. The microcontroller outputs its decision to motor drivers to drive the motors in order to have forward or backward motion or a turn. Any mobile which makes a call to the mobile phone stacked in the robot will act as remote. So, this is a simple robotic project which even does not require the construction of receiver and transmitter kits, but has an innovated application of cell phone and robust control. Dualtone multifrequency (DTMF) signaling is used for telephone signaling over the line in the voice frequency band to the call switching center. The version of DTMF used for telephone tone dialing is known by the trademarked term TouchTone. DTMF assigns a specific frequency (consisting of two separate tones) to each key so that it can easily be identified by a microprocessor. The signal generated by a DTMF encoder is a direct algebraic summation, in real time, of the amplitudes of two sine (cosine) waves of different frequencies. Figure shows the block diagram of the mobile operated land rover. The important components of this project are DTMF decoder, Microcontroller and driver.The HT9170 series are Dual Tone Multi Frequency receivers (DTMF decoders). All types of the HT9170 series use digital counting techniques to detect and decode all the 16 DTMF tone pairs into a 4bit code output. A builtin dial tone rejection circuit is provided to eliminate the need for prefiltering. When input signals given at VP (1) and VN (2) pins are recognized to be effective, DV (15) becomes high, and the correct 4bit code of the tone (DTMF) is transferred to the out put pins, D0 (11) D3 (14). Figure 2 shows the ICs pin assignment.