GPS Tracking System

Our project consists of three main components:

1. TM4C123GH6PM microcontroller
2. Ublox NEO-6m GPS Module
3. Trajectory Plotter web python based app

Project features

• serial watchdog with esp-32 to monitor the operations and easily debug code.
• flask web server to update the location.
• shortest path algorithm (A*) along with some other algorithms and structures.
• lcd to print current latitude and longitude beside the accumulated traveled distance.

TODO

• sensor fusion algorithm with IMU (gyro, accel, magnetometer) to compensate the considerable gps error, also it is a must in high speed scenarios like driving a car. The best and easy-to-implement algorithm is Extended Kalman filter.

• implementing RTOS, the simplest algorithm is Round-Robin, which will prove beneficial in multi-sensor setup

• implementing interrupt.

• adding simple voice commands to direct the user towards the destination

• correction methods for the distance function

Team Members

Names	id
Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed	2001261
Kareem Amr Mohamed Soliman	2001033
Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Soliman	2001866
Mohamed Ahmed Samir Amin	2001876
Mohamed Yaser Elsaid	2001226
Yousef Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed	2001496
Mohamed Mahmoud Rezk	2002114
Abdalrahman Esaam Mohamed Elemam Elemam	1900771

implementation

Ports and pins Configuration

GPS NEO-6m

pins	GPIO pins
VDD	Vbus
GND	GND
TX	PE4 *** uart5_rx ***
RX	PE5 *** uart5_tx ***

LCD

pins	GPIO pins
VDD	Vbus
GND	GND
V0	POT
RS	PB0
RW	PB1
E	PB2
D4	PB4
D5	PB5
D6	PB6
D7	PB7

idea of working

• When the tiva lunch it first wait for the gps to receieve sentances displaying loading
• when it starts working we use

  SW1 ---> set the current location as the end point
  SW2 ---> set the current location as the start point

Usage

LINUX platforms

• First, download the tivaware (either the full SDK version or TM4c123gxl) from here, this step requires TI account.

• Clone the project to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/mohamedrezk122/tivac-based-map-router

• Follow this tutorial on how to setup lm4tools( for flashing binaries to the board), and tivaware.

• Open terminal in project directory and execute the following commands

mkdir build
cmake ..
make 
sudo make flash