Mechatronics Spring-2008

Class: Mechatronics spring 2008
Professor: Jungwon Yoon, PhD (http://robot.gsnu.ac.kr/)
Assistant: Bondhan Novandy, BEng. (403 (building)-405 (room), come to my lab if you have questions or write your questions below (comments))
Room: 404-209 (experiment/computer room) & 403-220 (class room)
Time: 09:00 AM (10 minutes dispensation)

This single page will contain the links to the lecture notes, homework, quiz and any updated information about the class. Not like last semester (Spring-2007), I am not going to use my computer as the web server, instead you can check this only page.

IMPORTANT information (must read):

• The class is in English, please try to update your english skill. If I speak too fast, too slow or not clear then let me know. One important thing: Don’t be afraid! We are learning TOGETHER!
• Always read the lecture notes before coming to the class! Also read the last semester courses, do the exercises and homeworks. I realized for a mechanical engineering student, programming and electronics are not easy subjects and not that difficult either, but when you start enjoying it you can distinguish yourself from other ordinary mechanical engineers
• The software/tools we are using will be given in the class.
• Pay attention to this class! There will be final project, students will be divided into several groups and must propose their idea for the project. The topic of the project will be related to the experiments/lectures that we have done in the class. Please be creative. You can check several inspirational projects here.
• ZIP (.zip) your homework and submit to my email to my email bondhan.novandy [at] gmail [dot] com bondhan_novandy [at] yahoo [dot] com BEFORE 00:00 AM KST (Korean Standard Time) of the next class meeting. Later than this will not be accepted. Write on the subject of the email [mech-XX-StudentID-FamilyName] example [mech-01-2007214011-Kim].

Text-Book/Knowledge Resources:

• ATMEGA128-Master (Korean). I will give you the copy for you to copy
• http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html (online book)
• www.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c (another online book)
• www.avrfreaks.net
• http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/
• http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/ (inspirational projects)
• www.ohm.co.kr (site for application board spec in korean)
• http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/codevisionC/cvavrman.pdf (cvavr manual)
• http://www.nikhef.nl/pub/departments/et/misc/atmega128/atmega128_dat.pdf (ATMEGA128 Datasheet)
• Internet, please surf the internet using these keywords: AVR OR ATMEGA128 OR C PROGRAMMING AND TUTORIAL or you can search the ebooks in several sites

This page will be updated without any further information, so visit this page more often.

COURSES:

Spring 2008:

1st Week [Thu, March 6th 2008]

• Information about homeworks/tasks submission (important)
• Class plan for this course
• Final score calculation
• Software and others

2nd Week [Thu, March 13th 2008]

• Fundamental of C (Main program, variables, constants, structure, operators and arithmetic expressions, functions, I/O)
• Please read the lecture notes before the class and if possible do the exercise!

3rd Week [Thu, March 20th 2008]

• Conditions and Loops (if, if..else, for, while)
• Please read the lecture notes before the class and if possible do the exercise!

4th Week [Thu, March 27th 2008]

• Array and String (Brief explanation to pointer)
• Please read the lecture notes before the class and if possible do the exercise!

5th Week [Thu, March 27th 2008]

• Introduction to AVR microcontroller ATMEGA 128 and toolkits
• Quiz (15-20 minutes)
  • You are told to write a program which ask a string inputted from the user
  • Count the number of characters, vocals and consonants
  • Replace the vocals (regardless it is a capital letter or not) ‘a’ with ‘1′, ‘e’ with ‘2′, ‘i’ with ‘3′,’ o’ with ‘4′ and ‘u’ with ‘5′
  • Here’s the screen shot:
    
    
• Work alone! Student who is found out working together will be given 0 score. And Good Luck!
• The answer is now available here.

Mid-Term examination hints

• Please study the 5th week lecture note (2 questions)
• Download the last year spring 2007 mid-term test spring 2007 (1 question).
• Study the configuration of uC in this figure (2 questions):
• Good luck for tomorrow

7th Week [Thu, March 24th 2008]

• Input (brief)
• Trigger and timer (brief)

8th Week [Thu, May 1st 2008]

• Input (brief)
• Timer
• RC Servo
• Sonar SRF04

Spring 2007:

You can find the last semester lecture notes here.

Mechatronics final projects Spring 2008:

1. 2 DOF Robot arm, manual input with switches:

2. Fan with temperature sensor:

3. ADC to LED illuminator:

4. 3 DOF crane (Manual control):

5. Automatic Entrance Gate:

Students @ day of final presentation:

With the prof:

With me (Mengenai foto saya dibawah ini lihat di blog saya disini (klik)):

Personal comment:

I salute you for your effort of successfully finishing your mechatronics projects though your background is from mechanical engineering with minor experience in programming and electronics. Good Job!