Mobile Controlled Robotic Car

Have you ever wondered if you can control your switches, electronic appliances and most devices using your own Mobile Phone. Yes, it is possible with the help of simple logic circuit and a decoder which decodes the frequency of the tone generated by your phone. Here we are using a robotic car which is controlled by this circuit only and a motor deriver to supply necessary current.

DTMF decoder The MT8870 is a complete DTMF receiver integrating both the band split filter and digital decoder functions. The filter section uses switched capacitor techniques for high and low group filters; the decoder uses digital counting techniques to detect and decode all 16 DTMF tone-pairs into a 4-bit code. The circuit of the decoder is shown. The output from the decoder i.e. D0, D1, D2, D3 are used to give the signals to the motor driver. The output of the driver is connected to two motors which give differential drive to the car.

Also there is a wireless camera mounted on the car. Direct images on the internet can be obtained with the help of this camera. We just needed to setup this camera for a particular IP address. So the system is like a user who wants to control the car ust need to dial a number of the phone which is placed on the car. This phone is on auto receive and is attached to the DTMF decoder with the help of a microphone. The microphone terminals are given to the differential input of the amplifier. As the user dials the button, the tone goes to the input of the decoder where the tone is decoded and and corresponding output is seen on the pins. Now, this output is further given to the driver to drive the motor of the car. As user would want to know the exact position of the car, he/she can type the address of the camera on the browser and see the current position.

The decoder:
The HT9170 series tone decoders consist of three band pass filters and two digital decode circuits to convert a tone (DTMF) signal into digital code output. An operational amplifier is built-in to adjust the input signal. The pre-filter is a band rejection filter which reduces the dialing tone from 350Hz to 400Hz. The low group filter filters low group frequency signal output whereas the high group filter filters high group frequency signal output. Each filter output is followed by a zero-crossing detector with hysteresis. When each signal amplitude at the output exceeds the specified level, it is transferred to full swing logic signal. When input signals are recognized to be effective, DV becomes high, and the correct tone code (DTMF) digit is transferred.

The steering control circuit is used for measuring the effective signal duration and for protecting against drop out of valid signals. It employs the analog delay by external RC time-constant controlled by EST. The timing is shown in Figure 3. The EST pin is normally low and draws the RT/GT pin to keep low through discharge of external RC. When a valid tone input is detected, EST goes high to charge RT/GT through RC.When the voltage of RT/GT changes from 0 to VTRT (2.35V for 5V supply), the input signal is effective, and the correct code will be created by the code detector. After D0~D3 are completely latched, DV output becomes high. When the voltage of RT/GT falls down from VDD to VTRT (i.e.., when

there is no input tone), DV output becomes low, and D0~D3 keeps data until a next valid tone input is produced.

The motor driver used is L293d.

Specifications of motor driver are. 600mA OUTPUT CURRENT CAPABILITY PER CHANNEL 1.2A PEAK OUTPUT CURRENT (non repetitive) PER CHANNEL ENABLE FACILITY OVERTEMPERATUREPROTECTIO N LOGICAL 0 INPUT VOLTAGE UP TO 1.5 V (HIGH NOISE IMMUNITY)

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