Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
24 Power Board for Illini-Sat3
Honorable Mention
Andrew Wistrand
Christopher Kang
Daniel Halperin
Channing Philbrick design_document2.pdf
final_paper1.pdf
presentation1.pptx
proposal1.pdf
LASSI
We intend to implement a power supply board for the Illini-sat3 to perform among others the following functions:
a) Provide means for on-board battery charging, monitoring and temperature control.
b) Provide regulated dc bus power rails to support on-board instrumentation and control equipment.
c) Provide protective features for the system to maximize resiliency of the power supply in case of fault conditions, this will include a watchdog timer which can reset the controller in the even of a fault.
d) Implement CAN-bus protocol for control aspects of the system using a Texas Instruments Hercules series TMS570LS1227. *(this component was chosen to be utilized in a previous iteration of the project and will be used (as recommended by our point of contact) unless we discover a reason to specifically change this.
**Note we have been coordinating with Mr. Channing Philbrick to develop this project and have been instructed to proceed directly to the RFA process in lieu of web board discussion. Additionally, we have tentatively scheduled an appointment to clarify more specific requirements for the project.

Cypress Robot Kit

Todd Nguyen, Byung Joo Park, Alvin Wu

Cypress Robot Kit

Featured Project

Cypress is looking to develop a robotic kit with the purpose of interesting the maker community in the PSOC and its potential. We will be developing a shield that will attach to a PSoC board that will interface to our motors and sensors. To make the shield, we will design our own PCB that will mount on the PSoC directly. The end product will be a remote controlled rover-like robot (through bluetooth) with sensors to achieve line following and obstacle avoidance.

The modules that we will implement:

- Motor Control: H-bridge and PWM control

- Bluetooth Control: Serial communication with PSoC BLE Module, and phone application

- Line Following System: IR sensors

- Obstacle Avoidance System: Ultrasonic sensor

Cypress wishes to use as many off-the-shelf products as possible in order to achieve a “kit-able” design for hobbyists. Building the robot will be a plug-and-play experience so that users can focus on exploring the capabilities of the PSoC.

Our robot will offer three modes which can be toggled through the app: a line following mode, an obstacle-avoiding mode, and a manual-control mode. In the manual-control mode, one will be able to control the motors with the app. In autonomous modes, the robot will be controlled based off of the input from the sensors.