This is an example program that actually allows the car to race using the FRDM-TFC library!
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Overview
This is an example program that uses the FRDM-TFC library to actually permit a car using the FDRM-TFC shield + FRDM-KL25Z to race around a center line track.
Exercises designed for Mentoring Matters Car Summer Camp for Summer 2014 at Freescale, Inc. in Austin, Texas
Car MODES
5 MODES OR EXERCISES THAT WILL ALIGN WITH DIP SWITCH SETTINGS IN BINARY FASHION e.g. Mode 1 = 001 = switch 1 is on, switch 2 is off, switch 3 is off
0 = 000 = Garage Mode, button light test to see if car alive!!
- PUSHBUTTON A - Light LEDs 0 and 1
- PUSHBUTTON B - Light LEDs 2 and 3
- (switch 4 does nothing)
1 = 001 = Garage Mode, forward/reverse adjust, no auto steer, terminal output
- POT 1 - Controls speed of right wheel: CCW = reverse; CW = forward
- POT 2 - Controls speed of left wheel: CCW = reverse; CW = forward
- NOTE In this mode the high pitched whine heard is of the H-bridge being active. To disable whine, briefly put into demo mode 1 above.
- (switch 4 does nothing)
2 = 010 = Garage Mode, steering adjust, no auto steer, terminal output
- POT 1 - Controls Servo: CCW = left; CW = right
- (switch 4 does nothing)
3 = 011 = Garage Mode, Camera test, some auto steer, terminal output
- switch 4 : OFF = normal dec data, ON = o-scope mode
4 = 100 = Track Mode, Auto Steer, safe settings
- LIGHT SPEED = 0.4 default
- switch 4 = terminal output on/off
- Pot0 = controls motor speed
- Pot1 = controls value to multiply with Kp for proportional control
5 = 101 = Track Mode, Auto Steer, fast settings
- LUDICROUS SPEED = 0.6 default
- switch 4 = terminal output on/off
- Pot0 = controls motor speed
- Pot1 = controls value to multiply with Kp for proportional control
6 = 110 = future upgrades
7 = 111 = future upgrades
Car Hookup
Motors
- Code written assuming left motor hooked to B1(red)/B2(black) and right motor hooked to A1(red)/A2(black).
Battery
- Be sure to hook positive (red) to 'Vbat' and negative (black) to 'Gnd'
Steering Servo
- Servo must be hooked up with black wire innermost (away from LEDs).
- Also be sure to mount servo on chassis with wire coming out the right side of the car.
Camera
- Camera must be hooked up with black wire towards LEDs on the shield board.
- Be sure to mount camera on tower with connector down towards the bottom.
Potentiometers (Pots)
- Pots by default should have arrows pointing toward battery/motor hookup (for demo mods default).
Car Calibration
Serial Terminal
- Download your favorite Terminal application (I use TeraTerm. Set it for 115200 baud, 8bit, none, 1bit.
- But first you have to be sure that Windows mbed serial driver has been installed: Windows serial config.
Camera
- Be sure to focus the camera properly. See demo video.
- Be sure to prevent light noise on camera: Avoid Light Noise
- More camera info
Servo/Steering
- You will need to put the car into demo mode 1 and connect up a terminal to the serial port in order to get feedback on the values for your particular servo as hooked up. Then change
MAX_STEER_LEFT
andMAX_STEER_RIGHT
inSpices.cpp
with these values to tell the program how your servo is hooked up.
Speed Control
- This program does not have proper speed control but does modify the speed slightly based on recent error results from the camera. It also modifies the differential speed to each wheel to have better control around curves.
- While debugging your car you may want to lower the speed. See the constants
LIGHT_SPEED
andLUDICROUS_SPEED
inSpices.cpp
. There you can change the speeds used for Modes 4 and 5 above. Range of valid values are 0.4-0.7. Lower is better when debugging the car around the track (mainly to minimize crash forces!).
Strange Gotchas
Glitchy Motors
- Apparently there is contention between TPM0_CH0 and OpenSDA micro that causes strange issues with Motors (PWM interference). This will cause glitches in motor activty when hooked up to USB only: Found contention
More Info
- The Freescale Cup main info page
- redxeth youtube channel with useful related videos\
main.cpp
- Committer:
- redxeth
- Date:
- 2014-06-24
- Revision:
- 1:87b28e8b9941
- Parent:
- 0:98e98e01a6ce
File content as of revision 1:87b28e8b9941:
#include "mbed.h" #include "TFC.h" #include "common.h" #include "Spices.h" // Exercises designed for Mentoring Matters Car Summer Camp // for Summer 2014 // at Freescale, Inc. // in Austin, Texas // // 5 MODES OR EXERCISES THAT WILL ALIGN WITH DIP SWITCH SETTINGS IN BINARY FASHION // e.g. Mode 1 = 001 = switch 1 is on, switch 2 is off, switch 3 is off // // Modes: // 0 = 000 = Garage Mode, button light test to see if car alive!! // PUSHBUTTON A - Light LEDs 0 and 1 // PUSHBUTTON B - Light LEDs 2 and 3 // -switch 4 does nothing- // // 1 = 001 = Garage Mode, forward/reverse adjust, no auto steer, terminal output // -switch 4 does nothing- // // 2 = 010 = Garage Mode, steering adjust, no auto steer, terminal output // POT 1 - Controls Servo: // CCW = turn left // CW = turn right // -switch 4 does nothing- // // 3 = 011 = Garage Mode, Camera test, some auto steer, terminal output // switch 4: // OFF = normal dec data // ON = o-scope mode // // 4 = 100 = Track Mode, Auto Steer, safe settings // switch 4 = terminal output on/off // // 5 = 101 = Track Mode, Auto Steer, fast settings // switch 4 = terminal output on/off // // 6 = 110 = future upgrades // // 7 = 111 = future upgrades /* NOTES Camera unmounted motors unhooked only servo / steering hooked up exercise 1 - garage drive - manual motors forward / reverse - ensure motors hooked up properly - forward/reverse/left/right - show terminal value exercise 2 - garage steer - manual steering - left /right - calibrate steering - show terminal to get feedback exercise 3 - garage see - focus camera - mount camera - camera + servo line tracking (race mode) garage mode use paper show following - bad Kp value - min speed = 0.5 exercise 4 - track - slow - fine tuning max speed - fine tune proportional control - Kp exercise 5 - track - fast - ratio of differential motor speed on curves - dead zone with high speed on straights */ void TFC_TickerUpdate() { int i; for(i=0; i<NUM_TFC_TICKERS; i++) { if(TFC_Ticker[i]<0xFFFFFFFF) { TFC_Ticker[i]++; } } } // Garage Mode // Car not meant to run on track // Use this to test out car features // and calibrate car // void GarageMode() { uint32_t i,j = 0; float ReadPot0, ReadPot1; //This Demo program will look at the first 2 switches to select one of 4 demo / garage modes switch(TFC_GetDIP_Switch()&0x03) { default: case 0 : // Mode 0 TFC_HBRIDGE_DISABLE; TERMINAL_PRINTF("MODE 0\r\n"); if(TFC_PUSH_BUTTON_0_PRESSED) { TFC_BAT_LED0_ON; TFC_BAT_LED1_ON; } else { TFC_BAT_LED0_OFF; TFC_BAT_LED1_OFF; } if(TFC_PUSH_BUTTON_1_PRESSED) { TFC_BAT_LED2_ON; TFC_BAT_LED3_ON; } else { TFC_BAT_LED2_OFF; TFC_BAT_LED3_OFF; } break; case 1 : // Mode 1 TFC_HBRIDGE_ENABLE; ReadPot0 = TFC_ReadPot(0); ReadPot1 = TFC_ReadPot(1); TERMINAL_PRINTF("MODE 1: "); TERMINAL_PRINTF("Left drive setting = %1.2f\t\t", ReadPot1); TERMINAL_PRINTF("Right drive setting = %1.2f\r\n", ReadPot0); TFC_SetMotorPWM(ReadPot0,ReadPot1); break; case 2: //Make sure motors are off TFC_SetMotorPWM(0,0); TFC_HBRIDGE_DISABLE; if(TFC_Ticker[0]>=20) // every 40mS output data to terminal { TFC_Ticker[0] = 0; //reset the Ticker //update the Servos TERMINAL_PRINTF("MODE 2: "); ReadPot0 = TFC_ReadPot(0); // ReadPot1 = TFC_ReadPot(1); TFC_SetServo(0,ReadPot0); // TFC_SetServo(1,ReadPot1); TERMINAL_PRINTF("Steer1 setting = %1.2f\r\n", ReadPot0); // TERMINAL_PRINTF("Steer2 setting = %1.2f\r\n", ReadPot0); } break; case 3 : TFC_HBRIDGE_DISABLE; if(TFC_Ticker[0]>1000 && TFC_LineScanImageReady>0) // every 1000 ticks (1s if 10ms) { // TERMINAL_PRINTF("MODE 3:\r\n"); TFC_Ticker[0] = 0; TFC_LineScanImageReady=0; // must reset to 0 after detecting non-zero if (terminalMode()) { // print values to terminal as if were o-scope... for(j=20;j>0;j--) { for(i=0;i<128;i++) { if ((TFC_LineScanImage0[i]<=(4096*j/20)) && (TFC_LineScanImage0[i]>=(4096*(j-1)/20))) TERMINAL_PRINTF("*"); else TERMINAL_PRINTF(" "); } TERMINAL_PRINTF("\r\n"); } } else { for(i=0;i<128;i++) // print one line worth of data (128) from Camera 0 { TERMINAL_PRINTF("%d",TFC_LineScanImage0[i]); if(i==127) // when last data reached put in line return TERMINAL_PRINTF("\r\n",TFC_LineScanImage0[i]); else TERMINAL_PRINTF(",",TFC_LineScanImage0[i]); } TERMINAL_PRINTF("============================================================================================\r\n"); wait_ms(10); } } break; } // end case } int main() { // TERMINAL TYPE PC.baud(115200); // works with Excel and TeraTerm //PC.baud(9600); // works with USB Serial Monitor Lite: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ksksue.app.terminal; doesn't work > 9600 TFC_TickerObj.attach_us(&TFC_TickerUpdate,2000); // update ticker array every 2mS (2000 uS) TFC_Init(); for(;;) { if(getMode() < 4) // Run Garage Mode GarageMode(); else // Run Track Mode TrackMode(); } // end of infinite for loop }