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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIRECTIONAL
OBJECT SENSING AND RANGING SYSTEM
Adamu Murtala Zungeru1
, Idris Mahmood2
, Anthony Chukwunonso Mmonyi3
, Gbenga Daniel Obikoya4
1,4
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
zungeru.adamu@fuoye.edu.ng, gbenga.obikoya@fuoye.edu.ng
2
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
iidriiz@yahoo.com
3
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
mac11anthony@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The research provides a security system that achieves automatic object sensing detection at a given radius range
from the security system. This system provides an automatic detection of intrusion into a restricted property. An
ultrasonic range sensor and a stepper motor are interfaced with a microcontroller. The range sensor is mounted
on top of a stepper motor which rotates about its axis continuously, and emits a burst of energy until reflected off
of an object. When the range sensor senses an object, the angle of the stepper motor at the instance of object
detection is recorded by the microcontroller and displayed on a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) along with the
object distance. Because of the rotational motion of the sensing system, it can be concluded that this system is
quite different in its approach to security issues as compared to similar ones that which are just stationed in a
fixed point and meant to detect obstacle or intrusion from a particular direction.
Keyword: Directional Object, Ultrasonic Range Sensor, Stepper Motor, Detection
1. Introduction
A quick and immediate detection helps to prevent worst events from happening, without which the world would
be in total chaos as things that could ordinarily be avoided will either go unannounced or will be noticed only
when it is too late. It is not just enough to know that something happened, but how it happened, when it
happened and where it happened. A proactive and preemptive measure can be deployed to avert an event from
happening, by making use of directional object sensing and ranging system. This automatic object detection
system incorporates the distance and angle of detection. It possess ultrasonic range sensor which works on the
principle of RADAR to detect object within its range of coverage.
The history of “Radio Detection and Ranging” goes back to the nineteenth/beginning of the twentieth century. In
1904 a patent for the detection of distant metal objects with electric waves was granted to the German Christian
Hülsmeyer. But intensive research only began in the 1930s with the aim of using radar techniques for military
applications. During World War II, radar technology and system grew rapidly. In the battle for Britain fought
during World War II, Great Britain used the 'Chain Home RADAR' system comprising of 21 early warning
RADAR sites to obtain timely warning of the direction and number of German aircraft coming to attack them.
They then used this information to focus on their limited number of interceptor aircraft to achieve numerical
parity with the attacking aircrafts. As a result, Germany was unable to achieve air superiority and they
indefinitely postponed their attack on Great Britain.
In the years following the war, research continued to steadily advance radar capabilities [1]. Since then
technologies like Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) and many more have been developed and introduced. Today
radar also found its way into many non-military applications (e.g. automotive) and research can be expected to
continue [2].
A German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects in 1886. In
1895, a Physicist instructor at the imperial Russian Navy School in Kronstadt, Alexander Popov, developed an
apparatus using a coherer tube for detecting distant lightning strikes. The following year, he added a spark-gap
transmitter. In 1897, while testing this equipment for communicating between two ships in the Baltic Sea, he
observed interference beat caused by the passage of a third ship. Popov wrote in his report that this phenomenon
could be used for objects detection. And his observation, though he made no further attempt to do anything about
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it, has formed the basis of the advancements that has been recorded in object detection and ranging system by
various scientists since the beginning of the 20th
century till date [3].
It is worthy of note that the British were the first to fully exploit RADAR as a defense against aircraft attack.
Robert Wattson discovered the object detection capability of the death rays the British scientists were originally
tasked to investigate, through the propagation of electromagnetic energy, by the defense ministry. And this
served as the basis for the Chain Home network of radars to defend the Great Britain, which defended
approaching German aircraft in the Battle of Britain in 1940 [4], [5], [6].
In late 1941 Popular Mechanics had an article in which a United State (U.S) scientist speculated about the
British early warning system on the English coast and came close to what it was and how it worked. Alfred Lee
Loomis organized the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Massachusetts which developed the technology in the
years 1941 – 1945 [6], [7].
The war precipitated research to find better resolution, more portability, and more features for radar including
complementary navigation system like Oboe used by the RAF’s pathfinder [8].
In 1999, Innovation Sensor Technology (InnoSenT) was the first manufacturer of planar and highly integrated
low cost radar module based on Field Effect Transistor (FET) oscillator technology, which replaced the common
waveguide with Gunn Oscillator at that time. Today, InnoSenT produces more than one million, five hundred
thousand radar per annum, for commercial, automotive and industrial application with increasing functionality,
complexity and significant growth [9].
Aloysious Wehr and Uwe Lohr (1999), measure the range and reflectance of objects from the surface of the earth
using an Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS), of which position (distance) and orientation (scanning angle) were
determined after application of different scanning mechanism and integration of laser with GPS and INS [10].
Vicent Tao (2001) was capable of inspecting transportation object from mobile mapping image sequences in an
automatic and efficient manner. Due to complexity, the approach here deals with transportation objects with
known location information which was derived from an existing database and with vertical line features such as
traffic signs, street light poles and so on. Success rate of the approach in this paper was over 90 percent based on
the test data that were gathered, though the research could be improved if the majority of the manual work could
be replaced by an automatic approach in order to save both time and cost [11].
Lorenz et al. (2001) developed a Cassini RADAR which was operated both in scatterometric and radiometric
modes during the Venus 1 and Earth swing-by to verify its functionality. At Venus, only the thermal emission
from the thick absorbing atmosphere was detected while at the Earth, both the RADAR echo and the microwave
emission from the ocean surface disturbances, the rough, high and cold mountains and so on were detected. The
instrument functionality appears to be excellent and could perform well for the Saturnarian system [12].
Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas Sjogren, Mats Petterson, Anders Gustavsson and Lars Ulander (2010) present a detection
of moving targets both theoretically by focusing in Ultrawide Band (UWB) Stynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
and experimentally by evaluating the gain in detection ability from the results on single-channel SAR. The
results with both simulated (theoretical) and real (experimentally) data show that the ability to detect moving
targets increases significantly even when a moving targets are surrounded by a considerable number of stationary
targets or clutter. The technique used in this research also showed the ability to estimate Normalised Relative
Speed (NRS) and to indicate the existence of acceleration and change in direction [13].
Celestin Twizere (2013) presents the detection of vehicular speed with the aid of Car Radar Gun (CRG) in order
to ensure road traffic safety in Rwanda. The Car Radar Gun detected the speed of vehicles by sending out
electromagnetic waves to the vehicles, thereafter received the reflected waves and after processing discovered
the speed of the vehicle. The research shown that, with the use of CRG, there was road safety improvement as
compared to previous years [14].
2. Design and Construction
The directional object sensing and ranging system is designed using the block diagram in Figure 1(a) and 1(b)
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(a) Block Diagram of RF Transmitter Unit
(b) Block Diagram of RF Receiver Unit
Figure 1: Block Diagrams of Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System
The system is designed to cover maximum range of 2.5m. Each module of the block diagram of Figure 1(a) and
1(b) are used to realize the design of the system.
Power Circuit: The transmitter circuit is powered by an external 12V battery. A reverse blocking diode is placed
between the battery's positive terminal and the input filter capacitor so as to protect the circuit components from
damage via reverse polarization. The diode is rated at 3A, 100V so that the stepper motor (rated at 1.2A, 12V)
will also be protected from reverse polarity by tapping its supply from the cathode of the diode without
exceeding the diode's current rating. The 100µF electrolytic input filter capacitor C1 dampens environmental
noise that may be induced in the circuit especially the harmonic effect of the resonating 50Hz power line
frequency. See Figure 8 for the complete circuit diagram. Also dampens any inductive voltage spike that may be
yielded in the coils of the stepper motor. The capacitive reactance offered to the power line noise is calculated
as:
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𝑋 𝐶 =
1
2𝜋𝑓𝐶
= 31.8Ω
Where F = 50Hz and C = 100µF, then, XC = 31.8Ω
A 3-Terminal 1A Positive Linear Voltage Regulator 7805 is placed after the input capacitor and it regulates the
12V DC voltage to a steady 5V in its output pin. It outputs sufficient current to supply to the other parts of the
circuit. Output capacitor C2 is 100nF ceramic capacitor used as specified in the datasheet of the regulator. It
smoothens and stabilizes the output 5V and filters off any transient that the circuit may produce. The power
supply for the receiver is similar only with that the 1N5401 reverse blocking diode is replaced with 1N4007
which has a current rating of 1A.
Reset Circuit: The RESET of the microcontroller is active low and is the pin 9 of the device. When a low
voltage is sensed on pin 9, the microcontroller clears all registers and Static Random Access Memory (SRAM)
locations and the CPU starts executing the program from run location 0x00000. The pin is connected to supply
voltage via a 10KΩ pull-up resistor (R2) which serves as a buffer between supply and ground to prevent short
circuit. A normally opened switch placed between the reset pin and ground is used to engage manual reset. A
10nF capacitor (C10) is used to prevent the reset pin from sensing debouncing of the switch and to filter any
circuit noise. The diode D3 protects the reset pin from being powered by the capacitor when power is OFF.
For manual rest, pressing and depressing the reset button resets the microcontroller.
Crystal Circuit: The microcontroller uses an external 16MHz crystal (X1) as clock source connected to its pin 12
and 13. The microcontroller therefore operates at 16 million clocks per seconds and is capable of executing 16
million instructions per seconds. The pins of the crystal are grounded through two 22pF capacitor (C3 and C4).
This configuration ensures a full rail-to-rail clock swing and a more powerful clock signal making the device
suitable for working in noisy environment.
Stepper Motor: The stepper motor driver is connected to the upper nibble of PORTB (PB0 - PB3) of the
microcontroller. The motor is a unipolar permanent magnet stepper motor and consist of two coils having three
cable endings. Two of the cables of each coil are the used to drive the motor while the remaining ones are
connected to the positive power supply. Four TIP41N NPN Silicon Power Transistors are used to drive each coil
of the motor. They are rated at 6A, 65W, 40V - 100V and have a gain of 75. This makes them suitable for
driving the motor because the rating exceeds the maximum requirement to drive the motor. Each coil of the
motor sinks 300mA of current and the transistors should be able to withstand this current drain or risk damage.
Each transistor is connected in common emitter mode with their emitters grounded and their collectors connected
to the four coil wires. Their bases are connected to the microcontroller via a base resistor. The collector current
of each transistor is dependent on the base current.
Range Sensor: The range sensor HC-SR04 in Figure 2 is mounted on top of the motor and it detects and
measures the speed of object within the radius of 5m from the transmitter unit as it rotates. It operates at 5V and
is powered by the 5V regulator's output. The sensor's Trigger and Echo pins are connected to PC0 and PC1 in
PORTC of the microcontroller. The microcontroller sends a 10μs pulse to the trigger pin and the checks to sense
when the echo pin becomes high. Once it is high, the microcontroller starts counting until the echo pin becomes
low. The count value is then used to calculate the object's distance.
Figure 2: Range Sensor
VCC TRG ECH GND
RANGESENSOR
5V
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Tachometer Circuit: Since the stepper motor is an open loop device, it does not give any feedback information
as to its current position. To compensate for this, an encoder is attached to it so that as it rotates, the angle of
rotation can be obtained by measuring the angle of its blade's deviation from the encoder.
The encoder is built as a contactless device and acts as an optical encoder by using light to sense the speed. An
infrared Light Emitting Diode LED was used as the light source in order to reduce the effect of ambient light on
the device since the operation of ordinary LEDs are greatly affected by ambient light. The infrared LEDs are
always ON and are constantly emitting light. The circuit consists of the infrared sender and receiver circuits. The
sender circuit is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Infrared Sender Circuit
The circuit consists of the infrared LED (IR LED), a current limiting resistor and power supply. The receiver
circuit is built around the LM358 high gain operational amplifier which acts as a comparator. The circuit is as
shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: The receiver circuit of the encoder
The resistors R19 and R18 form a voltage divider to provide 2.5V to the IR LED by the voltage divider rule:
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𝑉𝑅5 =
𝑅18
𝑅18 × 𝑅19
𝑉𝐶𝐶
(1)
𝑉𝑅5 =
1000
2000
× 5
𝑉𝑅5 = 2.5𝑉
When infrared light falls on the IR LED used as a sensor, the cathode voltage drops to as low as 1.4V or more
depending on the intensity of the light falling on it. The voltage drop is detected by the LM358 which compares
the voltage with the 1.6V at the pin 5 generated from the 10KΩ potentiometer. The output pin 1 of the
comparator goes high when the voltage at the cathode of the IR LED falls below 1.6V. So the output will be high
when infrared light is detected. An LED is used to indicate a high and low signal on the output (pin 1) of the op-
amp and its current is being limited by a 3.8KΩ resistor to 0.9mA as shown below:
𝐼𝐿 =
𝑉 𝐶𝐶 − 𝑉 𝑑
𝑅𝑠
(2)
𝐼𝐿 =
5 −1.8
3800
= 0.9 𝑚𝐴
The voltage drop across a red LED is 1.8V.
The Wireless Link: The transmitter and receiver units communicates via 413MHz Radio Frequency link (See
Figure 8 and Figure 9 for the complete circuit diagram for the transmitter unit and the receiver unit respectively).
In the transmitter unit, the microcontroller transmits the range sensor distance and the angle via the transmitter
module and the receiver unit's receives this message via the receiver module. Both communicates using USART
protocol so the RF modules are connected to transmit and receive data pin respectively.
A digital logic id inputted in the transmitter is available in the receiver but the receiver can only retain that logic
for a few milliseconds after which it starts receiving random logic repeatedly (garbage info). In order to solve
this problem, information is transmitted in packet size with error detection so that reliable information can be
received by the receiver. The error detection packet format used in this design is stated as follows:
Step 1: Send a junk data (J), to stabilize the receiver
Step 2: Send a preceding character twice to indicate commencement of a valid data. The transmitter sends three
different kinds of message to the receiver which is; object distance, object angle and range sensor status (no
detection and error status). When transmitting distance, the character that precedes the distance is D; A for angle;
N for no detection and E for error. When the receiver unit decodes any of these characters, it is able to know
what information was sent to it.
Step 3: After the character, send the actual data
Step 4: Send inverse of actual data
Step 5: Send a stop data (Z) to indicate end of packet.
Both the transmitter unit and receiver unit are configured to communicate using this packet. The
respective packet formats are thus;
For Object distance;
<J><D><D><distance><distance inverse><Z>
For Angle;
<J><A><A><angle><angle inverse><Z>
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For Status;
<J><S><S><status><status inverse><Z>
The receiver decodes this packet using the flowchart shown in Figure. 5
Figure 5: Flow Chart of Receiver Packet Decoding Process
3. Implementation and Testing
After the whole construction, both the transmitter and the receiver unit were tested to ensure they function
as desired. Also, the complete circuits (i.e. the transmitter and receiver circuit respectively) were powered ON.
An obstacle was placed within the sensor range of coverage and the display on the LCD was observed and noted
as shown in Figure 6.
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Figure 6: Implementation and Testing of Object Sensing and Ranging System
4. Results
After the implementation of the Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System, object distance ranging
between 50cm and 250cm, were measured from the system. Also, various angles were measured from the
system. The displayed range and measured range are tabulated in the Table 1.
Table 1: Table of Readout Distance and Measured Distance Readout from the Object Sensing and Ranging
System
S/N
Distance (cm)
Error (cm)
Readout Distance Measured Distance
1. 250 238 12
2. 210 200 10
3. 160 153 7
4. 100 94 6
5. 50 48 2
The distance readout from the LCD is compared against the measured distance as shown in Figure 7.
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Figure 7: Comparism between Readout Object Distance and Measured Object Distance
5. Conclusion
It is seen that the ultrasonic sensor was only able to transmit a range of about 2.5m. There were slight differences
between the measured distances and the readout distances from the LCD. This could be attributed to partial
sound absorption by an object. The Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System in this research can help
improve security and automation systems as well as improve the performance of target acquisition weaponries
whose task is to neutralize any alien body in a region because it can accurately acquire (or predict in the case of
moving bodies) object distances. The system can be used to secure highly valued equipment or check intrusion
into a restricted facility. After the design and testing of the system, it was found that, it meets its design
specification
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Figure 8: Complete Circuit Diagram of The Transmitter Unit
C1
100uF
VI
1
VO
3
GND
2
U1
7805
C2
100nF
D1
LED-RED
R1
330
C3
22p
C4
22p
R2
10k
RST
RST
X1
CRYSTAL
16MHz
VCC TRG ECH GND
RANGESENSOR
PB0/T0/XCK
1
PB1/T1
2
PB2/AIN0/INT2
3
PB3/AIN1/OC0
4
PB4/SS
5
PB5/MOSI
6
PB6/MISO
7
PB7/SCK
8
RESET
9
XTAL2
12
XTAL1
13
PD0/RXD
14
PD1/TXD
15
PD2/INT0
16
PD3/INT1
17
PD4/OC1B
18
PD5/OC1A
19
PD6/ICP1
20
PD7/OC2
21
PC0/SCL
22
PC1/SDA
23
PC2/TCK
24
PC3/TMS
25
PC4/TDO
26
PC5/TDI
27
PC6/TOSC1
28
PC7/TOSC2
29
PA7/ADC7
33
PA6/ADC6
34
PA5/ADC5
35
PA4/ADC4
36
PA3/ADC3
37
PA2/ADC2
38
PA1/ADC1
39
PA0/ADC0
40
AREF
32
AVCC
30
U2
ATMEGA16
B1
12V
+88.8
R4
1k
R5
1k
R6
1k
R7
1k
Q1
TIP41
Q2
TIP41
Q3
TIP41
Q4
TIP41
D2
1N5401
5V
5V
5V
5V
12V
Q7
2N2222
Transmitter
3
2
1
84
U3:A
LM358
R17
3.8k
R18
1k
R19
1k 50%
RV3
10k
D5
IR-LED D6
LED-RED
D9
IR-LED
R22
330
ENCODER
+5V
+5V
+5V
R3
4.7k
R8
4.7k
DATA
Vcc
GND
C10
10nF
D3
1N4001
PD2
PD2
5V
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Figure 9: Complete Circuit Diagram of the Receiver Unit
C1
100uF
VI
1
VO
3
GND
2
U1
7805
C2
100nF
D1
LED-RED
R1
330
B1
12V
5V
D7
14
D6
13
D5
12
D4
11
D3
10
D2
9
D1
8
D0
7
E
6
RW
5
RS
4
VSS
1
VDD
2
VEE
3
LCD1
LM016L
45%
RV1
1k
5V
PB0/ICP1
14
PB1/OC1A
15
PB2/SS/OC1B
16
PB3/MOSI/OC2
17
PB4/MISO
18
PB5/SCK
19
PB6/TOSC1/XTAL1
9
PB7/TOSC2/XTAL2
10
PC6/RESET
1
PD0/RXD
2
PD1/TXD
3
PD2/INT0
4
PD3/INT1
5
PD4/T0/XCK
6
PD5/T1
11
PD6/AIN0
12
PD7/AIN1
13
PC0/ADC0
23
PC1/ADC1
24
PC2/ADC2
25
PC3/ADC3
26
PC4/ADC4/SDA
27
PC5/ADC5/SCL
28
AREF
21
AVCC
20
U5
ATMEGA8
Reciever
Q5
2N2222
R9
4.7K
R10
4.7K
Vcc
data GND
D4
1N4007
5V
5V
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Design and implementation of a directional

  • 1. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 1 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIRECTIONAL OBJECT SENSING AND RANGING SYSTEM Adamu Murtala Zungeru1 , Idris Mahmood2 , Anthony Chukwunonso Mmonyi3 , Gbenga Daniel Obikoya4 1,4 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria zungeru.adamu@fuoye.edu.ng, gbenga.obikoya@fuoye.edu.ng 2 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria iidriiz@yahoo.com 3 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria mac11anthony@gmail.com ABSTRACT The research provides a security system that achieves automatic object sensing detection at a given radius range from the security system. This system provides an automatic detection of intrusion into a restricted property. An ultrasonic range sensor and a stepper motor are interfaced with a microcontroller. The range sensor is mounted on top of a stepper motor which rotates about its axis continuously, and emits a burst of energy until reflected off of an object. When the range sensor senses an object, the angle of the stepper motor at the instance of object detection is recorded by the microcontroller and displayed on a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) along with the object distance. Because of the rotational motion of the sensing system, it can be concluded that this system is quite different in its approach to security issues as compared to similar ones that which are just stationed in a fixed point and meant to detect obstacle or intrusion from a particular direction. Keyword: Directional Object, Ultrasonic Range Sensor, Stepper Motor, Detection 1. Introduction A quick and immediate detection helps to prevent worst events from happening, without which the world would be in total chaos as things that could ordinarily be avoided will either go unannounced or will be noticed only when it is too late. It is not just enough to know that something happened, but how it happened, when it happened and where it happened. A proactive and preemptive measure can be deployed to avert an event from happening, by making use of directional object sensing and ranging system. This automatic object detection system incorporates the distance and angle of detection. It possess ultrasonic range sensor which works on the principle of RADAR to detect object within its range of coverage. The history of “Radio Detection and Ranging” goes back to the nineteenth/beginning of the twentieth century. In 1904 a patent for the detection of distant metal objects with electric waves was granted to the German Christian Hülsmeyer. But intensive research only began in the 1930s with the aim of using radar techniques for military applications. During World War II, radar technology and system grew rapidly. In the battle for Britain fought during World War II, Great Britain used the 'Chain Home RADAR' system comprising of 21 early warning RADAR sites to obtain timely warning of the direction and number of German aircraft coming to attack them. They then used this information to focus on their limited number of interceptor aircraft to achieve numerical parity with the attacking aircrafts. As a result, Germany was unable to achieve air superiority and they indefinitely postponed their attack on Great Britain. In the years following the war, research continued to steadily advance radar capabilities [1]. Since then technologies like Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) and many more have been developed and introduced. Today radar also found its way into many non-military applications (e.g. automotive) and research can be expected to continue [2]. A German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects in 1886. In 1895, a Physicist instructor at the imperial Russian Navy School in Kronstadt, Alexander Popov, developed an apparatus using a coherer tube for detecting distant lightning strikes. The following year, he added a spark-gap transmitter. In 1897, while testing this equipment for communicating between two ships in the Baltic Sea, he observed interference beat caused by the passage of a third ship. Popov wrote in his report that this phenomenon could be used for objects detection. And his observation, though he made no further attempt to do anything about
  • 2. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 2 it, has formed the basis of the advancements that has been recorded in object detection and ranging system by various scientists since the beginning of the 20th century till date [3]. It is worthy of note that the British were the first to fully exploit RADAR as a defense against aircraft attack. Robert Wattson discovered the object detection capability of the death rays the British scientists were originally tasked to investigate, through the propagation of electromagnetic energy, by the defense ministry. And this served as the basis for the Chain Home network of radars to defend the Great Britain, which defended approaching German aircraft in the Battle of Britain in 1940 [4], [5], [6]. In late 1941 Popular Mechanics had an article in which a United State (U.S) scientist speculated about the British early warning system on the English coast and came close to what it was and how it worked. Alfred Lee Loomis organized the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Massachusetts which developed the technology in the years 1941 – 1945 [6], [7]. The war precipitated research to find better resolution, more portability, and more features for radar including complementary navigation system like Oboe used by the RAF’s pathfinder [8]. In 1999, Innovation Sensor Technology (InnoSenT) was the first manufacturer of planar and highly integrated low cost radar module based on Field Effect Transistor (FET) oscillator technology, which replaced the common waveguide with Gunn Oscillator at that time. Today, InnoSenT produces more than one million, five hundred thousand radar per annum, for commercial, automotive and industrial application with increasing functionality, complexity and significant growth [9]. Aloysious Wehr and Uwe Lohr (1999), measure the range and reflectance of objects from the surface of the earth using an Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS), of which position (distance) and orientation (scanning angle) were determined after application of different scanning mechanism and integration of laser with GPS and INS [10]. Vicent Tao (2001) was capable of inspecting transportation object from mobile mapping image sequences in an automatic and efficient manner. Due to complexity, the approach here deals with transportation objects with known location information which was derived from an existing database and with vertical line features such as traffic signs, street light poles and so on. Success rate of the approach in this paper was over 90 percent based on the test data that were gathered, though the research could be improved if the majority of the manual work could be replaced by an automatic approach in order to save both time and cost [11]. Lorenz et al. (2001) developed a Cassini RADAR which was operated both in scatterometric and radiometric modes during the Venus 1 and Earth swing-by to verify its functionality. At Venus, only the thermal emission from the thick absorbing atmosphere was detected while at the Earth, both the RADAR echo and the microwave emission from the ocean surface disturbances, the rough, high and cold mountains and so on were detected. The instrument functionality appears to be excellent and could perform well for the Saturnarian system [12]. Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas Sjogren, Mats Petterson, Anders Gustavsson and Lars Ulander (2010) present a detection of moving targets both theoretically by focusing in Ultrawide Band (UWB) Stynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and experimentally by evaluating the gain in detection ability from the results on single-channel SAR. The results with both simulated (theoretical) and real (experimentally) data show that the ability to detect moving targets increases significantly even when a moving targets are surrounded by a considerable number of stationary targets or clutter. The technique used in this research also showed the ability to estimate Normalised Relative Speed (NRS) and to indicate the existence of acceleration and change in direction [13]. Celestin Twizere (2013) presents the detection of vehicular speed with the aid of Car Radar Gun (CRG) in order to ensure road traffic safety in Rwanda. The Car Radar Gun detected the speed of vehicles by sending out electromagnetic waves to the vehicles, thereafter received the reflected waves and after processing discovered the speed of the vehicle. The research shown that, with the use of CRG, there was road safety improvement as compared to previous years [14]. 2. Design and Construction The directional object sensing and ranging system is designed using the block diagram in Figure 1(a) and 1(b)
  • 3. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 3 (a) Block Diagram of RF Transmitter Unit (b) Block Diagram of RF Receiver Unit Figure 1: Block Diagrams of Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System The system is designed to cover maximum range of 2.5m. Each module of the block diagram of Figure 1(a) and 1(b) are used to realize the design of the system. Power Circuit: The transmitter circuit is powered by an external 12V battery. A reverse blocking diode is placed between the battery's positive terminal and the input filter capacitor so as to protect the circuit components from damage via reverse polarization. The diode is rated at 3A, 100V so that the stepper motor (rated at 1.2A, 12V) will also be protected from reverse polarity by tapping its supply from the cathode of the diode without exceeding the diode's current rating. The 100µF electrolytic input filter capacitor C1 dampens environmental noise that may be induced in the circuit especially the harmonic effect of the resonating 50Hz power line frequency. See Figure 8 for the complete circuit diagram. Also dampens any inductive voltage spike that may be yielded in the coils of the stepper motor. The capacitive reactance offered to the power line noise is calculated as:
  • 4. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 4 𝑋 𝐶 = 1 2𝜋𝑓𝐶 = 31.8Ω Where F = 50Hz and C = 100µF, then, XC = 31.8Ω A 3-Terminal 1A Positive Linear Voltage Regulator 7805 is placed after the input capacitor and it regulates the 12V DC voltage to a steady 5V in its output pin. It outputs sufficient current to supply to the other parts of the circuit. Output capacitor C2 is 100nF ceramic capacitor used as specified in the datasheet of the regulator. It smoothens and stabilizes the output 5V and filters off any transient that the circuit may produce. The power supply for the receiver is similar only with that the 1N5401 reverse blocking diode is replaced with 1N4007 which has a current rating of 1A. Reset Circuit: The RESET of the microcontroller is active low and is the pin 9 of the device. When a low voltage is sensed on pin 9, the microcontroller clears all registers and Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) locations and the CPU starts executing the program from run location 0x00000. The pin is connected to supply voltage via a 10KΩ pull-up resistor (R2) which serves as a buffer between supply and ground to prevent short circuit. A normally opened switch placed between the reset pin and ground is used to engage manual reset. A 10nF capacitor (C10) is used to prevent the reset pin from sensing debouncing of the switch and to filter any circuit noise. The diode D3 protects the reset pin from being powered by the capacitor when power is OFF. For manual rest, pressing and depressing the reset button resets the microcontroller. Crystal Circuit: The microcontroller uses an external 16MHz crystal (X1) as clock source connected to its pin 12 and 13. The microcontroller therefore operates at 16 million clocks per seconds and is capable of executing 16 million instructions per seconds. The pins of the crystal are grounded through two 22pF capacitor (C3 and C4). This configuration ensures a full rail-to-rail clock swing and a more powerful clock signal making the device suitable for working in noisy environment. Stepper Motor: The stepper motor driver is connected to the upper nibble of PORTB (PB0 - PB3) of the microcontroller. The motor is a unipolar permanent magnet stepper motor and consist of two coils having three cable endings. Two of the cables of each coil are the used to drive the motor while the remaining ones are connected to the positive power supply. Four TIP41N NPN Silicon Power Transistors are used to drive each coil of the motor. They are rated at 6A, 65W, 40V - 100V and have a gain of 75. This makes them suitable for driving the motor because the rating exceeds the maximum requirement to drive the motor. Each coil of the motor sinks 300mA of current and the transistors should be able to withstand this current drain or risk damage. Each transistor is connected in common emitter mode with their emitters grounded and their collectors connected to the four coil wires. Their bases are connected to the microcontroller via a base resistor. The collector current of each transistor is dependent on the base current. Range Sensor: The range sensor HC-SR04 in Figure 2 is mounted on top of the motor and it detects and measures the speed of object within the radius of 5m from the transmitter unit as it rotates. It operates at 5V and is powered by the 5V regulator's output. The sensor's Trigger and Echo pins are connected to PC0 and PC1 in PORTC of the microcontroller. The microcontroller sends a 10μs pulse to the trigger pin and the checks to sense when the echo pin becomes high. Once it is high, the microcontroller starts counting until the echo pin becomes low. The count value is then used to calculate the object's distance. Figure 2: Range Sensor VCC TRG ECH GND RANGESENSOR 5V
  • 5. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 5 Tachometer Circuit: Since the stepper motor is an open loop device, it does not give any feedback information as to its current position. To compensate for this, an encoder is attached to it so that as it rotates, the angle of rotation can be obtained by measuring the angle of its blade's deviation from the encoder. The encoder is built as a contactless device and acts as an optical encoder by using light to sense the speed. An infrared Light Emitting Diode LED was used as the light source in order to reduce the effect of ambient light on the device since the operation of ordinary LEDs are greatly affected by ambient light. The infrared LEDs are always ON and are constantly emitting light. The circuit consists of the infrared sender and receiver circuits. The sender circuit is shown in Figure 3. Figure 3: Infrared Sender Circuit The circuit consists of the infrared LED (IR LED), a current limiting resistor and power supply. The receiver circuit is built around the LM358 high gain operational amplifier which acts as a comparator. The circuit is as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4: The receiver circuit of the encoder The resistors R19 and R18 form a voltage divider to provide 2.5V to the IR LED by the voltage divider rule:
  • 6. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 6 𝑉𝑅5 = 𝑅18 𝑅18 × 𝑅19 𝑉𝐶𝐶 (1) 𝑉𝑅5 = 1000 2000 × 5 𝑉𝑅5 = 2.5𝑉 When infrared light falls on the IR LED used as a sensor, the cathode voltage drops to as low as 1.4V or more depending on the intensity of the light falling on it. The voltage drop is detected by the LM358 which compares the voltage with the 1.6V at the pin 5 generated from the 10KΩ potentiometer. The output pin 1 of the comparator goes high when the voltage at the cathode of the IR LED falls below 1.6V. So the output will be high when infrared light is detected. An LED is used to indicate a high and low signal on the output (pin 1) of the op- amp and its current is being limited by a 3.8KΩ resistor to 0.9mA as shown below: 𝐼𝐿 = 𝑉 𝐶𝐶 − 𝑉 𝑑 𝑅𝑠 (2) 𝐼𝐿 = 5 −1.8 3800 = 0.9 𝑚𝐴 The voltage drop across a red LED is 1.8V. The Wireless Link: The transmitter and receiver units communicates via 413MHz Radio Frequency link (See Figure 8 and Figure 9 for the complete circuit diagram for the transmitter unit and the receiver unit respectively). In the transmitter unit, the microcontroller transmits the range sensor distance and the angle via the transmitter module and the receiver unit's receives this message via the receiver module. Both communicates using USART protocol so the RF modules are connected to transmit and receive data pin respectively. A digital logic id inputted in the transmitter is available in the receiver but the receiver can only retain that logic for a few milliseconds after which it starts receiving random logic repeatedly (garbage info). In order to solve this problem, information is transmitted in packet size with error detection so that reliable information can be received by the receiver. The error detection packet format used in this design is stated as follows: Step 1: Send a junk data (J), to stabilize the receiver Step 2: Send a preceding character twice to indicate commencement of a valid data. The transmitter sends three different kinds of message to the receiver which is; object distance, object angle and range sensor status (no detection and error status). When transmitting distance, the character that precedes the distance is D; A for angle; N for no detection and E for error. When the receiver unit decodes any of these characters, it is able to know what information was sent to it. Step 3: After the character, send the actual data Step 4: Send inverse of actual data Step 5: Send a stop data (Z) to indicate end of packet. Both the transmitter unit and receiver unit are configured to communicate using this packet. The respective packet formats are thus; For Object distance; <J><D><D><distance><distance inverse><Z> For Angle; <J><A><A><angle><angle inverse><Z>
  • 7. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 7 For Status; <J><S><S><status><status inverse><Z> The receiver decodes this packet using the flowchart shown in Figure. 5 Figure 5: Flow Chart of Receiver Packet Decoding Process 3. Implementation and Testing After the whole construction, both the transmitter and the receiver unit were tested to ensure they function as desired. Also, the complete circuits (i.e. the transmitter and receiver circuit respectively) were powered ON. An obstacle was placed within the sensor range of coverage and the display on the LCD was observed and noted as shown in Figure 6.
  • 8. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 8 Figure 6: Implementation and Testing of Object Sensing and Ranging System 4. Results After the implementation of the Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System, object distance ranging between 50cm and 250cm, were measured from the system. Also, various angles were measured from the system. The displayed range and measured range are tabulated in the Table 1. Table 1: Table of Readout Distance and Measured Distance Readout from the Object Sensing and Ranging System S/N Distance (cm) Error (cm) Readout Distance Measured Distance 1. 250 238 12 2. 210 200 10 3. 160 153 7 4. 100 94 6 5. 50 48 2 The distance readout from the LCD is compared against the measured distance as shown in Figure 7.
  • 9. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 9 Figure 7: Comparism between Readout Object Distance and Measured Object Distance 5. Conclusion It is seen that the ultrasonic sensor was only able to transmit a range of about 2.5m. There were slight differences between the measured distances and the readout distances from the LCD. This could be attributed to partial sound absorption by an object. The Directional Object Sensing and Ranging System in this research can help improve security and automation systems as well as improve the performance of target acquisition weaponries whose task is to neutralize any alien body in a region because it can accurately acquire (or predict in the case of moving bodies) object distances. The system can be used to secure highly valued equipment or check intrusion into a restricted facility. After the design and testing of the system, it was found that, it meets its design specification REFERENCES Skolnik, Merril I., (2001), “Introduction to Radar Systems. 3rd ed.” New York; Chikago: McGraw Hill. Martin Kothe, (2008) “Object Recognition with Surveillance Radar System” Diplomstudiengang Eleckro- und informationstechnik University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz, Germany. Kostenko, A. A., Nosich, A. I. and Tishchenko, I.A (2001), “Radar Prehistory, Soviet Side: Development of the three-coordinate L-band pulse radar in Ukraine in the late 1930’s”, Proceedings of IEEE APS International Symposium Digest, Boston, 2001, vol.4. pg. 44-47. Bonnier Corporation (1935), “Popular Science”. Bonnier Corporation. pg. 29-34. Bonnier Corporation (1941), “Popular Science”, Corporation. pg. 56-70. Hearst Magazines (1941), “Popular Mechanics”, Hearst Magazines. pg. 26-32. Hearst Magazines (1935), “Popular Mechanics”, Hearst Magazines. pg. 844-849. Jones F. E. (1946), “Oboe: A precision ground-controlled blind-bombing system”, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part IIIA: Radiolocation 93 (2): 496. doi:10.1049/ji-3a-1.1946.0133. 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 0 50 100 150 200 250 Object Position ObjectDistancefromtheSensingandRangingSystem Readout Distance Measured Distance
  • 10. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 10 Wolfgang Weidmann (1999), “Radar Sensing and Detection of Moving and Stationary Objetcs’, Innovative Sensor Technology (InnoSenT), www.innosent.de. Aloysius Wehr, Uwe Lohr (1999), “Airborne Laser Scanning – An Introduction and Overview”, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing 54 (1999), pg. 68-82. C. Vincent Tao (2001), “Database-Guided Automatic Inspection of Vertically Structured Transportation Objects from Mobile Mapping Image Sequences”, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing Vol. 67, No. 12, December 2001, pp. 1401-1409 R. D. Lorenz et. Al (2001), “Cassini Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR): Earth and Venus Observations”, Journal Of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, No. A12, pg. 30271 - 30279. Viet Thuy Vu, Thomas Sjögren, Mats Pettersson, Anders Gustavsson, and Lars Ulander (2010), “Detection of Moving Targets by Focusing in UWB SAR, Theory and Experimental Results”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, No. 10, pp. 3799-3815, 2012. Celestin Twizere, “Impact of Car Radar Gun on Road Traffic Safety in Rwanda”, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Volume 3, Issue 9, September 2013.
  • 11. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 11 Figure 8: Complete Circuit Diagram of The Transmitter Unit C1 100uF VI 1 VO 3 GND 2 U1 7805 C2 100nF D1 LED-RED R1 330 C3 22p C4 22p R2 10k RST RST X1 CRYSTAL 16MHz VCC TRG ECH GND RANGESENSOR PB0/T0/XCK 1 PB1/T1 2 PB2/AIN0/INT2 3 PB3/AIN1/OC0 4 PB4/SS 5 PB5/MOSI 6 PB6/MISO 7 PB7/SCK 8 RESET 9 XTAL2 12 XTAL1 13 PD0/RXD 14 PD1/TXD 15 PD2/INT0 16 PD3/INT1 17 PD4/OC1B 18 PD5/OC1A 19 PD6/ICP1 20 PD7/OC2 21 PC0/SCL 22 PC1/SDA 23 PC2/TCK 24 PC3/TMS 25 PC4/TDO 26 PC5/TDI 27 PC6/TOSC1 28 PC7/TOSC2 29 PA7/ADC7 33 PA6/ADC6 34 PA5/ADC5 35 PA4/ADC4 36 PA3/ADC3 37 PA2/ADC2 38 PA1/ADC1 39 PA0/ADC0 40 AREF 32 AVCC 30 U2 ATMEGA16 B1 12V +88.8 R4 1k R5 1k R6 1k R7 1k Q1 TIP41 Q2 TIP41 Q3 TIP41 Q4 TIP41 D2 1N5401 5V 5V 5V 5V 12V Q7 2N2222 Transmitter 3 2 1 84 U3:A LM358 R17 3.8k R18 1k R19 1k 50% RV3 10k D5 IR-LED D6 LED-RED D9 IR-LED R22 330 ENCODER +5V +5V +5V R3 4.7k R8 4.7k DATA Vcc GND C10 10nF D3 1N4001 PD2 PD2 5V
  • 12. Network and Complex Systems www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-610X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0603 (Online) Vol.4, No.8, 2014 12 Figure 9: Complete Circuit Diagram of the Receiver Unit C1 100uF VI 1 VO 3 GND 2 U1 7805 C2 100nF D1 LED-RED R1 330 B1 12V 5V D7 14 D6 13 D5 12 D4 11 D3 10 D2 9 D1 8 D0 7 E 6 RW 5 RS 4 VSS 1 VDD 2 VEE 3 LCD1 LM016L 45% RV1 1k 5V PB0/ICP1 14 PB1/OC1A 15 PB2/SS/OC1B 16 PB3/MOSI/OC2 17 PB4/MISO 18 PB5/SCK 19 PB6/TOSC1/XTAL1 9 PB7/TOSC2/XTAL2 10 PC6/RESET 1 PD0/RXD 2 PD1/TXD 3 PD2/INT0 4 PD3/INT1 5 PD4/T0/XCK 6 PD5/T1 11 PD6/AIN0 12 PD7/AIN1 13 PC0/ADC0 23 PC1/ADC1 24 PC2/ADC2 25 PC3/ADC3 26 PC4/ADC4/SDA 27 PC5/ADC5/SCL 28 AREF 21 AVCC 20 U5 ATMEGA8 Reciever Q5 2N2222 R9 4.7K R10 4.7K Vcc data GND D4 1N4007 5V 5V
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