Final Term

BONUS
Project/Competition
for
Digital Computer Fundamentals
And
Electrical and Electronic Measurements
General Notes and Project Guidelines:

Groups may be formed for a maximum of 10 students.

Projects will be marked out of 100 points.

Please submit the following on Thursday the 21 st of May 2015 as explained later:
a) Written Report
b) Power Point Presentation
c) Hardware Circuits
d) Simulation results using any simulation software

This report and presentation will include what the group has reached in the system design and layout of the
hardware and/or software.

Both documentations are extremely important (You have to learn to put your ideas on paper! This is a
professional MUST as an engineer!!!). They are awarded 25% of the final mark.

Practical Work working properly with good understanding of all practical aspects accounts for 50% of the
Final mark.

Oral exam of your project is weighted at 25% of the mark.

All projects have to be handed-in before 2 oclock on Thursday the 21st of May 2015.

20% extra bonus points will be awarded to students handing-in their complete project before 2oclock on
Saturday 16th of May 2015.

10% extra bonus points will be awarded to students handing-in their complete project before 2oclock on
Monday 18th of May 2015.

No bonus points will be awarded to students handing-in their reports at the final set day.

Late submissions would incur a reduction in the mark awarded by a geometric progression of the form:

No marks would be awarded one week from the deadline.

Late reports (after one week from the set date and time) will not be accepted.

The project must be minimally budgeted and marks will be deducted for excessive expenditures.

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A market analysis must be conducted and cost analysis is to be performed in order to perform a viability and
validity of the project and possible market prospects.

If two (or more) reports are found to be identical or copied, each of them will be graded from half the mark (or
the ratio of their respective number). In other words, the minimum mark will be divided between the students
having given their report to be copied or having presented a copied report.

ALL students from first year wishing to hand-in their projects must hand it in to ANY one of the following:

Professor Dr. Samir Deghedie

Dr. Mohamed El-Habrouk

Mr. Maged Hanafi

Mrs. Manar Mohammed

Mr. Hasan Zaytoun

Mr. Ahmed Magdy

Mrs. Mai Diab

Mr. Ahmed Salah

Mr. Tarek Negm

in person in order to be evaluated on the spot and given a mark.

If you leave the report to be handed in by a third party, it will be graded from half the original mark.

If you are travelling or will not be available at the set dates, make sure to hand in the project earlier. Please be
vigilant enough to coordinate with one of the supervisors APRIORI.

Three awards will be given to the best three groups who are really worth. The first prize amounts to LE200,
the second prize amounts to LE150 and the third prize amounts to LE100. These winners will be decided by
the supervisors and will be asked to perform additional presentation.

For this project, it is required to achieve the following items

Simulation results of the circuit must be conducted on any simulation software (such as Multi-SIM EWB,
Orcad PSPICE, Matlab/Simulink, )

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design and fabrication

Technical written report detailing all the accomplished work as well as a complete explanation for the system
designed.

Power Point presentations incorporating the details and ideas as well as the problems encountered in the
process of the implementation as well as your ideas to solve these problems. You have to put all your effort in
properly and professionally presenting your work in order to help you get a good job in the future (It is
normally said: You have to learn to properly sell yourself -your skills- to get a good position in a good job).

It is required to present the following in the written report:

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2. Explanation of the idea, the function of each chip used as well as the circuit explanation.
3. Simulation of the designed circuit.
4. The working prototype of the system including all support chips as well as the PC interface (if applicable).
5. The testing procedures undertaken to verify your design.

Hints:
1.

The system is to operate using digital logic circuits (and make use of some analogue interfaces) in order to
fulfill the task.

2. You may use any of the digital logic chips you have studied in your course and/or any others you may wish to
use.
3. Ordinary press switches (push-buttons), dip-switches and seven segment displays.
4. LM555 timers may be used for timing circuits. These would generate any frequency of desire. However the
stability of such a circuit is rather poor.
5. Use the TL084 or the LM324-Quad Operational Amplifier, for the analogue interface circuit if required. You
may need to use Zener diodes and potential dividers to protect from over-voltages, as well as current to voltage
conversions.
6. The robot should be able to avoid collision with any wall.
7. Microcontrollers cannot be used.
8. Remote control and keypads are not accepted.

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TRAFFIC LIGHT ROBOT

In this project, you are required to make a fully automated line-tracking robot, which can detect traffic lights (Red,
Yellow or Green) and take a decision based upon its colour (move, stop, right or left).

One of the contest parameters requires that the robot dimensions do not exceed 30cm x 30cm x 30cm.
Figure 1 presents the layout of the floor plan structure as taken for the competition.

DISPLAY
1

DISPLAY
2

Figure 1

Design the following

5 seconds Yellow

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10 seconds Green

5 seconds Red
The robot should stop if the light is Red and move forward if the light is Green.
T2 and T3
T2 is a traffic light with the following sequence:

5 seconds Yellow

15 seconds Green

10 seconds Red
T3 is a traffic light with the following sequence:

15 seconds RED

5 seconds Yellow

10 seconds Green
The robot should check T2 and T3:
If both are red or yellow, the robot should stop.
Both cannot be Green at the same time according to the previous sequence. If this occurs then the robot
should stop until only one of them is Green.
If T2 is Green, the robot should move in T2 direction and same if T3 is Green.
Display 1
It displays the number of cars that has passed by the Start point (Increment when a robot passes by this point).
Display 2
It displays the number of cars that has passed in T3 direction.
Important Notes:
1) The robot motion is performed following a black line on a light background at all times.
2) The Robot should start from the Start point and move forward if T1 is Green, then it moves right or left
based on T2 and T3 returning back to the Start point as shown in figure 1 using directional arrows.
3) The Start point is a black Node.
4) The robot should avoid collision with any obstacles or walls.
5) You may place any sensor in any location on the map to activate the display.
6) The Display is fixed on the map (not on the robot).

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