Courses Handbook 2010

308824 (v.1) Mechatronic Project 234


Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 307543 (v.4) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version
AND
310207 (v.1) Engineering Programming 100 or any previous version
Syllabus: Embedded microcontroller programming, simulation, compiling and downloading, using timers and interrupts; basic PCB design using CAD software; voltage-regulated power supply design; optoisolation; serial communications; UART interfacing; 'master-slave' protocol design; high-level PC programming; PWM control of DC motors, using analog-to-digital converters, using matrix keypads and controlling LCD displays. Students work in teams to program and control a mobile robot.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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