Power Windows Using Touch Screen

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056
Volume: 03 Issue: 01 | Jan-2016 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
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POWER WINDIOWS USING TOUCH SCREEN
S. Parameshwara1, Manu. s2, Manjunath2, Suren Sharan Navalgi2, Vinay Mahadev Hunachyal2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, The National Institute of
Engineering, Mysuru, India-570008
2 Students, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering,
Mysuru, India-570008
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Abstract - This paper introduces a new control
mechanism for power windows. At present electronic
buttons and crank handles are used as control units for
power windows. This paper aims at introducing a touch
screen interface for the same. This is basically a paper
based on control systems.
A resistive touch screen in placed at appropriate
position so as to be controlled by the driver with ease.
The touch screen shows the present position of the
power windows. The user can adjust the windows just
by sliding his finger by applying a slight pressure on the
screen. The touch screen controller measures the co-
ordinates of the destination point. The micro-controller
used is Arduino Atmega8 and is given the input from
the touch screen controller. The controller calculates
the appropriate amount of time for which the motor is
to be run in a particular direction. This time is
equivalent to the length of movement to be caused on
the window. The output power of the micro-controller is
not sufficient enough to drive the power windows
motor. Hence an intermediate component H-Bridge is
used which is suitable. The H-Bridge receives the
direction and amount of time for the motor run as
inputs and controls the power windows motor
accordingly.
Key Words: Power windows, Touch screen, Arduino
Atmega8, H-bridge
1. INTRODUCTION
In early years of 20th century Crank mechanism was
implemented as controller for window adjustment. A
crank is an arm attached at right angle to a rotating shaft
by which reciprocating motion us imparted to or received
from the shaft. It is used to convert circular motion into
reciprocating motion, or sometimes reciprocating motion
into circular. The user had to rotate the handle in
clockwise or anti-clock directions respectively. This used
no electric power and hence these are just windows and
not power windows. Power windows are usually
inoperable when the car is not running as the electrical
system is not “live” once the ignition has been turned off.
The Hydro-Electric system; however, could lower the
windows at rest. Power windows have become so common
that by 2008, some automakers eliminated hand cranks
from all models.
2. AIM AND REQUIREMENTS
The aim was to implement Touch Screen interface as
control for the power windows which replaces both crank
and electronic button mechanisms. Sliding the touch
screen for appropriate length to move the window. As
compared to electronic button mechanism this eliminates
the time required to press and hold the button. Another
aim is to provide graphical and virtual display of the
present position of windows. This eliminates the manual
effort of user to look at the position of each window.
To windows belt
Fig -1: Block Diagram
2.1 Hardware Requirements
The hardware requirements are
 Arduino development board
 Four wire resistive touch screen
 Driving servo motor
 Suitable H-Bridge
 An automobile window Kit
Resistive
Touch
Screen
Arduino
Atmega 8
Micro
controller
H- Bridge
Driving
Motor

2.2 Software Requirements
 Windows operating System
 Arduino Development Tools
 JDK
2.3 Touch screen
A Touch Screen is a 2-dimensional sensing device that is
constructed of two sheets of material separated slightly by
spacers. Resistive 4- and 5-wire touch systems belong to
the most popular and most common touch screen
technologies. Their market share is about 75%, mainly due
to their low costs and simple interface electronics.
Resistive system can be found in various mobile
applications including PDAs and Smart phones.
Features:
 Reading touch screen coordinates for 4- and 5-
wire screens
 Measurement of screen resistance(4-wire)
 Translation of touch coordinates into screen
coordinates.
Special Features:
 RoHS Compliant
 Power- Saving Sleep mode
 Industrial Temperature Range
 Built in drift compensation algorithm
 128Bytes of user EEPROM
 4X4mm QFN package
2.4 ARDUINO ATMEGA8
Arduino is a popular open- source single –board
microcontroller, descendant of the open source wiring
platform, designed to make the process of using
electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible.
The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design
for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and
on-board input/output support. The software consists of a
standard programming language complier and the boot
loader that runs on the board.
Arduino hardware is programmed using a Wiring-based
language (syntax and libraries), similar to C++ with some
slight simplification and modifications, and a processing-
based integrated development environment.
3. IMPLEMENTATION
Two values are measured X1 and X2 indicating the swipe
start and end co-ordinates. Then the calculation can be
done as shown in the flowchart given in Fig. 2. The amount
by which the window is to be moved is given by ‘w’.
No
Yes
No
Yes
Fig -2: Flow chart
The Touch Screen used is two dimensional 4-wires
Resistive of size 3” x2. The user slides his finger on the
Touch Screen in appropriate direction in order to move
the window shield accordingly. The touch screen notifies
the X and Y co-ordinates of touch portion of the screen and
sends the corresponding analog voltage values its output
wires. The X and Y analog output values of the 4 wire
Touch Screen appear as inputs to the Arduino board
analog input pins. The ADC controller converts these
analog values into digital representations.
Start
Sense
x1, x2
Main
power
off
X = x1-x2
X = x2-x1
C A B
Calculate w Calculate w
Move Up Move down
If
x2>x1
Stop

Fig -3: Output of Touch Screen
4. CONCLUSIONS
The aim of the paper was to interface a microcontroller and a
touch-screen in order to control the functioning of an
automobile power window. All the connections were made
and machine was run on various codes. All the errors were
debugged and finally the code which works for finger swipe
movement was finalized. Due to the constraint of insufficient
continuous power supply, the final code was tested on a
smaller motor. And due to the same constraint the assembly is
programmed successfully to work with just touch as the
control. Once it has been taken up by any manufacturer to put
it into use, the following improvements can be done on the
system. The touch screen can be developed to be used as
means of entertainment during the ride. It can be interfaced
with a display unit for movies or even small touch games. The
touch screen can be programmed to control, windscreen
wipers, side mirrors, room mirrors and also the overhead
window. The complete control unit can be compressed into a
single embedded board with desired functionalities. A
potentiometer relay can be added to the window assembly to
give a feedback to the control system on the exact position of
the window at that instant. A continuous power supply can be
provided that can supply a continuous peak output of 12V,7A.
REFERENCES
[1] Arduino user manual
[2] Arduino documentation with libraries.
[3] Serial – USB bridge by silicon labs.
[4] Essential device drivers by silicon labs
[5] Components required for low power usage by Li2
Innovations
[6] Hercules manual by NexRobotics

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