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Diplomarbeit 2004 (DA04): Arbeits-Archiv
 
DA Zem 04/2 - Race-Management-System for slotcar racing
Studierende: Michael Heiniger, heinimic
  Andre Plattner, plattand

Betreuer: Jan Zeman, zema

At the thesis at the University of Applied Sciences a complete race management system for a slot car race course has been developed.

It was a very interesting project, which integrated three different disciplines. The work is basically consisting of the following three parts: The programming of the microcontroller, the programming of the management system and the hardware development, which is the biggest part of all them.

Most of the Parts of this Project had to be redesigned from scratch, because they had too many bugs and it was too uncertain if they would be scalable enough for larger requirements.

An adjustable measuring racket has been developed and the sensors have been refined, so that the cars can be detected from above the race track. That way the race track doesn?t have to be damaged for inserting the sensors.

On every sensor contact, the running program on the microcontroller will be interrupted and the states of all sensors will be saved immediately. During the idle times, the controller sends its collected data to the computer, which will be processed there.

A java application is running on the computer, which analyzes the collected information and represent it. Additionally the java application offers control-functions to interact with the microcontroller.

The hardware part of the thesis is about finished and can be used without problems. The java application fulfills the most important requirements, so that the product can be used normally. Due to the fixed time-limit, not all requirements could be fully implemented. Because the hardware don?t uses any more modifications, the java application can also be refined independent of the hardware.

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