Adaptive Motion Control of FIREBIRD V Robot

Fire Bird V supports ATMEGA2560 (AVR), P89V51RD2 (8051) and LPC2148 (ARM7) microcontroller adaptor boards. This modularity in changing the microcontroller adaptor boards makes Fire Bird V robots very versatile. User can also add his own custom designed microcontroller adaptor board. The Fire Bird V robot is the 5th in the Fire Bird series of robots. First two versions of the robots were designed for the Embedded Real-Time Systems All the Fire Bird V series robots share the same main board and other accessories. Different family of microcontrollers can be added by simply changing top microcontroller adaptor board. Atmel ATMEGA2560 is used as Master microcontroller (AVR architecture based Microcontroller) Atmel ATMEGA8 as Slave microcontroller. This paper presents an interactive adaptive module which moves the robot in various directions by loading a program through Atmel Studio 6 into AVR Boot loader and also by using the motor movement supported by L293D IC and setting different ports of IC in configuration with Robot. Atmel ATMEGA2560 is used as Master microcontroller and Atmel ATMEGA8 as Slave microcontroller. Students and engineers can go through each step involved in it for effective learning. The paper will also lay emphasis on basic learning of FIREBIRD V Robot, components of FIREBIRD V Robot, ATMEGA 2560 Microcontroller, Embedded C Programming Language and L293D IC