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Pneumatics
Project Lead: Andrew Feistner
Overview
The pneumatics system will provide a means for controlling actuators within the submarine such as the claw, torpedos, and marker droppers. Pneumatics are controlled via simple on-off commands to the pneumatic in the form of high and low voltages.
Timeline
- Schematic Completed (October 5th)
- Parts Selected and Footprints Associated (October 12th)
- PCB Schematic and Component Review (October 17th)
- PCB Routing Completed (November 7th)
- PCB Design Review (November 10th)
- PCB Ordered (November 21st)
- Firmware Completed (December 10th)
- Board Populated (January 8th)
Design
A microcontroller will be utilized as a GPIO expander and will be implemented as a ROS node on the microcontroller itself. This node will subscribe to a topic to control actuators based on boolean values.
Resources
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Arduino Tutorials | Code tutorials for programming Arduino devices. |
| ATMega1284P Arduino Core | Arduino Core for the ATMega1284P |
| RosSerial Documentation | RosSerial is the communication protocol that allows implementation of a ROS node on a microcontroller. |
| ATMega1284P | Microcontroller to be used on the project. |
