Keypad Controlled And Industrial Gas Monitoring Wireless Robot

The control circuit of the robot (mounted on it) can be represented by the following block diagram –

Arduino Mega – Arduino Mega is one of the microcontroller boards available on the Arduino platform. This controller board has Atmega 1280 as the sitting MCU and has 128 Kb flash memory, 4 Kb EEPROM, 8 Kb SRAM, onboard UART, SPI and I2C interfaces. The board has 56 GPIO pins of which 15 pins can be used for 8-bit PWM output. There are 16 analog input pins available on the board as well. This is a bigger controller board available from the Arduino and is generally used when number of sensors or components required to be interfaced is large. In the remote circuit, 15 pins of the board are utilized where 6 pins are used to interface character LCD, 7 pins are used to interface keypad and Rx and Tx pins are used to connect with the X-bee module. 

Arduino UNO – Arduino UNO is one of the most popular prototyping boards. It is used frequently in robotic applications as it is small in size and packed with rich features. The board comes with built-in Arduino boot loader. It is an Atmega 328 based controller board which has 14 GPIO pins, 6 PWM pins, 6 Analog inputs and on board UART, SPI and TWI interfaces. In this control circuit, 8 pins of the board are utilized. There are 4 pins used to connect with the input pins of the motor driver IC.  The two pins RX and TX of the board are used to interface the X-bee module and establish serial communication over USART. The analog input pins A0 and A1 are used to interface the MQ-7 and MQ-135 sensors. Learn more about Arduino UNO from here. 

From the sensitivity curve of the sensor, it can be seen that the resistance of the sensor decreases as the concentration of the target gas is increased in PPM while for clean air its resistance remains constant. In the graph, the Rs is the resistance in target gas and Ro is the resistance in clean air. The graph is shown for CO, CH4 and H2 gases.

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//Program to
 
#include 

#include 

const byte ROWS = 4;  //four rows

const byte COLS = 3;  //four columns

LiquidCrystal lcd(13, 12, 6, 5, 4, 3);

char hexaKeys[ROWS][COLS] = {

  {'1','2','3'},

  {'4','5','6'},

  {'7','8','9'},

  {'*','0','#'}

};

byte rowPins[ROWS] = {41, 43, 45, 47};               //connect to the row pinouts of the keypad

byte colPins[COLS] = {49, 51, 53};                   //connect to the column pinouts of the keypad

Keypad customKeypad = Keypad( makeKeymap(hexaKeys), rowPins, colPins, ROWS, COLS);   //initialize an instance of class NewKeypad

void setup()

{

  Serial.begin(9600);

  lcd.begin(16, 2);


  lcd.setCursor(0,0); 

  lcd.print("Engineers Garage");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print("               "); 

  delay(3000);

  lcd.setCursor(0,0);

  lcd.print("INDSL MONITORING");

  lcd.setCursor(0,1);

  lcd.print(" WIRELESS ROBOT");  

  delay(3000); 

}

  

void loop()

{

  char customKey = customKeypad.getKey();  

  

  if(customKey == '2')

  {

        Serial.println("F");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("<--Direction-->");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("    FORWARD");

  }

  

   if(customKey == '8')

  {

        Serial.println("B");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("<--Direction-->");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("   BACKWARD");

  }


  if(customKey == '4')

  {

        Serial.print("L");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("<--Direction-->");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("     LEFT");

  }

  

  if(customKey == '6')

  {

        Serial.println("R");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("<--Direction-->");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("     RIGHT");

  }

  

  if(customKey ==  '5')

  {

        Serial.println("S");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("<--Direction-->");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("     STOP");

  }     

  

  if(customKey ==  '1')

  {

        Serial.println("C");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("  CarbonMonoxide");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("   Reading"); 

        delay(500);

        char buffer[] = {' ',' ',' ',' ',' '};

        while (!Serial.available());

        //when serial is available read the data till newline and store to buffer

        Serial.readBytesUntil('n', buffer, 10);

        //converting the charcter to integer

        int incomingValue = atoi(buffer);

       // Serial.println(incomingValue);

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("Measured value");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print(incomingValue);

  }     

  if(customKey == '3')

    {

        Serial.println("A");

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("  AirQuality");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print("   Reading");

        delay(500);

        char buffer[] = {' ', ' ', ' '};

        while(!Serial.available());

        Serial.readBytesUntil('n', buffer, 10);

        int incomingValue = atoi(buffer);

        lcd.clear();

        lcd.setCursor(0, 0);

        lcd.print("Measured value");

        lcd.setCursor(0, 1);

        lcd.print(incomingValue);

  }

}

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