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Using
this material, the student can learn the basic technology
used in robotics. This goes from the basics of electronic
devices such as motors, potentiometers. LEDs etc, to Motor
Control using a microprocessor, including themes such
as A/D conversion, PWM, Feedback control etc. As a Development
Environment we use the Free evaluation version of the
HEW (High- perfomance Embedded Workshop) software provided
by Renesas Technology INC. The user doesn't need to do
any other preparation to be able to use it, saving time
and money. Furthermore, the e-nuvo BASIC textbooks (soon
available in English too) that comes with the set, teach
the user from the basics of LEDs and how to use the development
environment to the basics of Control Theory in a practical
way with experiments for each theme so as to assure understanding.
Therefore it is easy to use even for people who use a
CPU for the first time, and advanced enough to be used
for advanced analysis during development. Finally e-nuvo
BASIC uses the same microcontroller(H8 3687F) as e-nuvoWHEEL,
the next step in the [ZMP e-nuvo Series] program of engineering
education.
[e-nuvo
BASIC ver.1.0Pamphlet]
[e-nuvo
BASIC Poster(in Japanese)]
[e-nuvo
BASIC FAQ(in japanese)]
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| The Keyword phrase to understand
the [ZMP e-nuvo Series] is "From Electronic Devices
to a Bipedal Walking Robot". e-nuvo BASIC
represents the first step in this [ZMP e-nuvo Series]
and as such, teaches the student the basics of Electronic
Devices, Motor Control and Embedded Programming. The contents
of the e-nuvo BASIC program are mainly related to areas
taught at electronic engineering departments but we believe
that to fully understand robotics, students and professors
from other areas can benefit too by understanding these
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Principles of Electronic Devices and Motor
Control
When you connect a battery to
the poles of a DC Motor, it will start running. However,
for robots, you need to be able to control until what
point the motor will run to reach a certain angle and
stop.Learning how to do that is the idea behind this
book: Learning Motor Control Theory.
We start with the basics. First we learn about the
characteristics of electronics devices such as the transistor,
the potentiometer etc, and using these devices we perform
experiments such as "Graph between resistance values
and potentiometer angles", "Driving motors
with transistors" or "H-Bridge Circuits".
After understanding the working of these devices, we
proceed to more advanced experiments using the CPU such
as "A/D conversion of potentiometer values","Encoder
counting" or "Changing motor velocity through
PWM" and finish with Sotware Servo for Motor Control.
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Starting with HDL (Hardware Description Language)
(in progress)
We used the H8 to learn programming
by software. Now we use the CPLD for learning about
hardware. Using a a CPLD processor widely used in industry
(made by Altera) the student can learn the basics of
Hardware Design going from AND OR logic calculus to
decoders, selectors, flip flops etc.
In the second part, he/she follows with counters, state
machines, signal processing and finally feedback control.
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Introduction to Microcontollers for C Programmers
(Renesas e-school Series-in japanese)
For students who want to study
further about Microcontroller systems, Renesas Technology
offers a program called e-school series with "Introduction
to Microcontollers for C programmers" and "H8/300H
Tiny Course" among others (in japanese)
They provide further instruction on the use of the
H8 3687F (such as i/0 port and timers, A/D converter,
experiment environment setup, e8 emulator etc) which
is the same processor used in e-nuvo BASIC.
[Renesas Technology e-school Series]
[Renesas Technology e-school Series Introduction to
microcontrollers for C Programmers]
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