Portable controlled car setup

Project Title

Portable controlled car setup

Project Area of Specialization Computer ScienceProject Summary

    As technology is getting advance day by day so is the ease for people  to do their daily works. Technology is making the every day life of people easier and efficient .The time needed for any certain work is decreasing day by day with the help of high tech technologies. Advance technologies is being implemented in vast discipline around the globe. One discipline among these fields is automotive .The evolution  of the  automotive industry is in much faster rate then before. The concepts of certain vehicles have been introduced in the market but not yet implemented fully functionally. The cars have been drived conventionally with the live physical assistance of a person and still the technology is vacant for a driverless and automated cars. So the need for developing for this advancement is being tried to be appended in this project.

      The project will focus on moving the car and handling the car without a driver sitting on the driver seat. The control of the car will be given to a smart phone application through which the person will control the vehicle .The movement in the desired direction will be commanded through that mobile application. Not only the pure movement but also the electronics functioning of the car system will be handled with the application so that it makes less effort for the person to complete the task .
Starting the car ,controlling the electronics of the car and the machanical aspecst  etc will be advanced in this new technology.

              The project lies on the three main modules which are the connectivity, user interface and the embedded hardware system. Embedded  system includes the microcontroller based platform which will  be programmed according to the requirement needed for the operation of the car electronics and as well as mechanical aspect to drive and control the car .The car electronics includes  turning on the headlights and other lights in the car  ,turning on and off the AC,car ignition,horn and turning idicators etc. Other aspects include  switching on/off the engine of the car and main part to move the car with the controls given to the acceleraion ,brakes,clutch,transmission and the steering wheel control.

   Second module which is the user interface which  will be basically a mobile software that will  provide accessibility to the user through which the person will control the functionality of the system. The user interface will be as a smart phone application (android) which will be developed according to the functionalities.

Third module is the connectivity with which  the embedded system will send and receive data to the smart phone cordlessly.

Project Objectives

The idea behind this project is to develop a car system that can be controlled with a mobile phone through an android application.Driving a car wirelessly can be entertaining and as well as convenient in certain situations like if a car is trapped between some jam-packed area to which a driver is unable to open the doors of the car and fails to enter the car and secondly if a person wants to change the inner temperature of the car prior entering the car,he/she  can start the car from the mobile application and can turn the air conditioner or the heater on and can make his/her car ready to go as soon as the person enters the car. 

Project Implementation Method

This project basically comes in the domain of hardware and as well as software aspects.The impementation of the project heavily relies on the coordination between both the system instructions (software) and as well as the equipments (hardware) needed to control the specific functionalities.

 The software part consists of 2 parts ,firstly the microcontroller instructions and secondly the android developement.Microcontroller and android both will be customized according to the requirment needed for the operation of the car system.The hardware part includes many electronic devices and components that would work as a medium for communication between parts  and as well as the actuators to make the physical movements in the system.

The system will work in such a way that the input will be given from the android application to the microcontroller through bluetooth module that will be connected to the microcontroller and on behalf of that input the microcontroller will process that piece of information and will send the output signals to the required actuator for example in case of switching the headlights on/off the principal of implementation is as following:

• Both main and the ground taken out by wires from the main wire which is giving connections to other component of the car 
• the power source of the headlights will be car battery ,the connection between the headlights and the car battery will be made through a relay module (if the relay gives the signal to open connection it will stop the passage of current and  if the relay gives the signal to close the connection then it will pass the flow of current through) .
• the relay will be connected to the arduino which will send the actual signals to the relay 
• the arduino will also be connected to the blutooth module through reciveing and transmitting pins of the arduino for serial communication
• at the user end side the blutooth module will be connected to the bluetooth of the smart phone to send commands to the arduino through android application.

other part of the system could have different mechanism according to the schematics of the circuit and the working principals of the components .In case of motors ,motor driver are needed to drive the motor and will have different approach to deal with for example for the mechanical parts different motors will be required to move the certain parts of the car for example the module of acceleration will work in the following way:

• a stepper motor will be connected to the acceleration cable,the movement of the motor will open and close the throttle and hence will able to accelerate the car
• the motor will be connected to the motor driver and hence the motor driver will be connected to the arduino (motor will be powered by the car battery)
• the arduino will send and recieve the signals through serial communication with the bluetooth module and at further end it will be connected to the application.

Different motors will be needed to perform different tasks.

Benefits of the Project

This project could be a starting point for further innovation and developement in the field of artificial intelligence .some other benefits include :

• time saving
• effort saving
• convenient for the driver
• less costly
• easy to install in cars once the project is completed
• it can lead to further benifits like monitoring the car   with the cameras
• it can also be controlled with the wifi 
• if a person left his/her key in the car he can easily open the car and get the keys etc
• drive the car out of the conjusted area without physical presence in the car

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

This project is an example of add on feature and as well as new new technology that can be introduced in the market.

• a cutomized application that can also be put on the google play store 
• embedded system in cars

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry ITOther Industries Transportation Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies RoboticsSustainable Development Goals Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	76250
relay module 8 ch	Equipment	3	500	1500
arduino mega 2560 r3	Equipment	1	1150	1150
stepper motor	Equipment	1	250	250
eps system	Equipment	1	8000	8000
bt module hc05	Equipment	1	400	400
relay module 2 ch	Equipment	1	150	150
tb6560 stepper motor driver	Equipment	2	800	1600
L298N motor driver	Equipment	1	200	200
stepper motors	Equipment	2	12500	25000
2dm542 stepper motor driver	Equipment	4	7000	28000
mechanical sevices expenditures	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000