MICROCONTROLLER BASED DAM CONTROL SYSTEM

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 .