Abstract:
The main objective of this research is to develop a mechatronics based system,
which will depend on many type of sensors such as water level, pressure and
touch to make full automatic control in a real-time basis. This system offers more
flexibility and more accurate .the designed system can solve many problem that
may occur when using manual dam control system such as overflow of water , high
pressure on the gate .
The proposed system consists of a set of sensors to check the status of the DAM.
an 8-bit microcontroller (ATMEGA16) is used to determine the best control action
to fill full the performance requirements. The water level sensor and the pressure
sensors is used feedback the status
to the microcontroller. Based on this feed
back from sensors , the dam water flow can be controlled through the gates by
using motors. Two powerful simulation tool is used to simulate the proposed
design. The first one is BASCOM which is used for program writing , compiling
and simulating. The second one is proteus ISIS professional which is used to build
the interactive component models to allow the simulation of complete micro-
controller based designs.
The result obtained from the simulation tool is used to enhance the system
performance and improve the
proposed control system mechanism .Prototype
hardware circuit is built and the program that written using BASCOM is loaded to
microcontroller to simulate real time DAM control system .
