CPE279: Design
and Develoment Project
Acad Unit: 4
Pre-requisite: Students must be registered for or
completed both CPE206 Microcontroller Systems Design
and CPE207 Software Engineering.
The Design and Development
Project (DDP) emphasizes practical aspects of analysis,
design and construction, testing and reliability.
The work undertaken reinforces theories, concepts
and issues introduced in formal lectures through
team-based implementation of a project that integrates
both hardware and software-related exercises.
The DDP project to be
carried out by the team is to
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Design
a microcontroller based stepper motor/dc motor
based mouse to explore a maze, solve the travelling
salesman problem on the explored maze, and find
the fastest/shortest path. Engineering and environment
constraints as well as safety issues are considerations
to be taken into account in the design.
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To
update the status of the exploration to a software
program on the PC through the serial communication
interface. The monitoring program will update the
mouse movement in real-time.
On completion of this
subject, the student should be able to:
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Design
a hardware based project using a microcontroller.
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Develop
medium scale software project including a Graphic
User Interface and algorithms such as maze exploration,
travelling salesman problem, etc.
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Integrate
the hardware and software to perform real time
update.
Total number of contact
hours/laboratory access:
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Two
hours of DDP briefing
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Two
weeks of formal laboratory work (1 week during
recess week and 1 week after exams)
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Free
access to the laboratory from week 4 of term to
DDP completion.
For the description of the DDP programme, please
click here.
