1. ECE 4006 Final Presentation Group Members – John Sellers - Doug Messick - Kelvin Bunn - Sean James Group Name: Altera NIOS Robot Group School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Project Overview The design of this project uses the Altera NIOS board as a robot controller. The robot used in this project is the AmigoBot, which contains 8 sonar sensors. The main function of the robot will be to track moving objects and object avoidance. ECE 4006 Final Presentation

3. Block Diagram ECE 4006 Final Presentation

4. Project Approach -Design RISC Processor -Communication with the Nios board -Interface Nios Board with the AmigoBot -Establish preliminary Control of AmigoBot -Finalize AmigoBot functionality ECE 4006 Final Presentation

5. Major Project Milestones C-program Template -Established on June 29, 2002 -Initially used to program the UART of the Nios board -Continually updated as source code for the project ECE 4006 Final Presentation

6. Major Project Milestones Communication with the Nios board -Established on June 29, 2002 -Pre-defined UART commands were used to program the Nios Board -Able to download and communicate functions ECE 4006 Final Presentation

7. Major Project Milestones Communication with the AmigoBot -Established on June 29, 2002 -C-program code used to send synchronization packets to open communication -Packets contained a header, a comand, and a checksum value ECE 4006 Final Presentation

8. Major Project Milestones Checksum Calculation -Established on June 29, 2002 -Initial Code provided did not compute the proper checksum -Values included in the checksum are the command, command type, and command value ECE 4006 Final Presentation

9. Major Project Milestones Control of the AmigoBot -Established on June 29, 2002 -Determined the protocol of the Server Information Packet (SIP) -SIP packets controlling synchronization and motor control were created ECE 4006 Final Presentation

10. Major Project Milestones Receiving Data from the AmigoBot -Established on June 29, 2002 -Acquired a serial cable void of a transmit pin -Purchased a serial sniffer program to analyze information returned from the AmigoBot ECE 4006 Final Presentation

11. Project Progress -Communication established with the Nios board and the AmigoBot -Established Control of the AmigoBot -Currently processing sonor information and updating the sonor algorithm ECE 4006 Final Presentation

12. ECE 4006 Project Proposal and Presentation

13. Next Steps -Continue to update the Algorithm that processes the sonor information -Provide a working demonstration of the AmigoBot -Complete the goals outlined in the objective of the project ECE 4006 Final Presentation

14. QUESTIONS