Ultrasonic distance measurement circuit design

Ultrasonic distance measurement circuit design

Due to the strong directivity of ultrasonic waves, slow energy consumption, and the long distance of propagation in the medium, ultrasonic waves are often used for distance measurement, such as rangefinders and level measuring instruments. The use of ultrasonic testing is often relatively fast, convenient, simple calculation, easy to achieve real-time control, and can meet the industrial practical requirements in terms of measurement accuracy, so it has also been widely used in the development of mobile robots.

In order for the mobile robot to walk automatically while avoiding obstacles, it must be equipped with a distance measuring system so that it can obtain distance information (distance and direction) from obstacles in time. The three-direction (front, left, and right) ultrasonic ranging system introduced in this article is to provide the robot with a range of motion distance information to understand the environment in front of it, left, and right.

Principle of Ultrasonic Ranging

1. Ultrasonic generator

In order to study and use ultrasound, many ultrasound generators have been designed and made. Generally speaking, ultrasonic generators can be divided into two categories: one is to generate ultrasonic waves by electrical means, and the other is to generate ultrasonic waves by mechanical means. The electrical methods include piezoelectric type, magnetostrictive type and electric type, etc .; the mechanical methods include Galton whistle, liquid whistle and air flow whistle. The frequency, power and sound wave characteristics of the ultrasonic waves generated by them are different, so their uses are also different. At present, the piezoelectric ultrasonic generator is more commonly used.

2. The principle of piezoelectric ultrasonic generator

The piezoelectric ultrasonic generator actually uses the resonance of the piezoelectric crystal to work. The internal structure of the ultrasonic generator is shown in Figure 1. It has two piezoelectric wafers and a resonance plate. When a pulse signal is applied to its poles and its frequency is equal to the natural oscillation frequency of the piezoelectric wafer, the piezoelectric wafer will resonate and drive the resonance plate to vibrate, which generates ultrasonic waves. Conversely, if no voltage is applied between the two electrodes, when the resonance plate receives ultrasonic waves, it will press the piezoelectric wafer to vibrate and convert mechanical energy into electrical signals. At this time, it becomes an ultrasonic receiver.

3. The principle of ultrasonic ranging

The ultrasonic transmitter emits ultrasonic waves in a certain direction, and starts timing at the same time as the transmission time. The ultrasonic waves propagate in the air. When an obstacle is encountered on the way, it returns immediately. When the ultrasonic receiver receives the reflected wave, it immediately stops timing. The propagation speed of ultrasonic waves in the air is 340m / s. According to the time t recorded by the timer, the distance (s) from the launch point to the obstacle can be calculated, that is: s = 340t / 2

Figure 1 Ultrasonic sensor structure

This is the so-called time difference ranging method.

Circuit design of ultrasonic ranging system

Figure 2 Schematic diagram of ultrasonic ranging circuit

The characteristic of this system is to use the single-chip microcomputer to control the transmission of ultrasonic waves and the timing of the round-trip time from the transmission of the ultrasonic waves to the receiving. The circuit schematic is shown in Figure 2. Only the wiring diagram of the front ranging circuit is drawn. The left and right ranging circuits are the same as the front ranging circuit, so they are omitted.

1. 40kHz pulse generation and ultrasonic emission

The ultrasonic sensor in the ranging system uses the piezoelectric ceramic sensor of UCM40, and its working voltage is a pulse signal of 40 kHz, which is generated by the single-chip microcomputer executing the following procedure.

puzel: mov 14h, # 12h; ultrasonic emission lasts 200ms

here: cpl p1.0; output 40kHz square wave

nop;

nop;

nop;

djnz 14h, here;

ret

The input terminal of the front ranging circuit is connected to the P1.0 port of the single-chip microcomputer. After the above program is executed, the single-chip microcomputer outputs a 40kHz pulse signal at the P1.0 port. After being amplified by the transistor T, the ultrasonic transmitter UCM40T is driven to emit 40kHz pulsed ultrasonic waves. And continue to transmit for 200ms. The input terminals of the right and left ranging circuits are connected to P1.1 and P1.2 ports respectively, and the working principle is the same as that of the front ranging circuit.

2. Reception and processing of ultrasonic waves

The receiving head adopts UCM40R paired with the transmitting head, which transforms the ultrasonic modulation pulse into an alternating voltage signal, which is amplified by the two poles of the operational amplifiers IC1A and IC1B and added to IC2. IC2 is an audio decoding integrated block LM567 with a locking loop. The center frequency of the internal voltage-controlled oscillator f0 = 1 / 1.1R8C3, and the capacitor C4 determines its locking bandwidth. Adjust R8 on the carrier frequency of the launch, then the input signal of LM567 is greater than 25mV, the 8 pin of the output end changes from high level to low level, as an interrupt request signal, it is sent to the microcontroller for processing.

The output of the front ranging circuit is connected to the INT0 port of the single-chip microcomputer, and the interrupt priority is the highest. The output of the left and right ranging circuits is connected to the INT1 port of the single-chip microcomputer through the output of the AND3 IC, and the P1.3 and P1.4 of the single-chip microcomputer are connected to the input of the IC3A. At the end, the identification of the interrupt source is handled by the program query, and the interrupt priority is first right then left. Some source programs are as follows:

receive1: push psw

push acc

clr ex1; turn off external interrupt 1

jnb p1.1, right; P1.1 pin is 0, go to the right ranging circuit interrupt service program

jnb p1.2, left; P1.2 pin is 0, go to the left ranging circuit interrupt service program

return: SETB EX1; open external interrupt 1

pop? acc

pop? psw

reTI

right: ...?; Right ranging circuit interrupt service program entry

? ajmp? return

left: ...; the entrance of the left ranging circuit interrupt service program

? ajmp? return

3. Calculate the ultrasonic propagation time

Start the timer T0 inside the single-chip microcomputer at the same time as starting the transmitting circuit, and use the counting function of the timer to record the time of ultrasonic wave transmission and the time of receiving the reflected wave. When the ultrasonic reflected wave is received, a negative transition is generated at the output of the receiving circuit, and an interrupt request signal is generated at the INT0 or INT1 terminal. The microcontroller responds to the external interrupt request, executes the external interrupt service subroutine, reads the time difference, and calculates the distance. Part of its source program is as follows:

RECEIVE0: PUSH PSW

PUSH ACC

CLR EX0; turn off external interrupt 0

? MOV R7, TH0; read time value

MOV R6, TL0?

CLR C

MOV A, R6

SUBB A, # 0BBH; calculate the time difference

MOV 31H, A; store results

MOV A, R7

SUBB A, # 3CH

MOV 30H, A?

SETB EX0; open external interrupt 0

POP ACC?

POP PSW

RETI

4. Software design of ultrasonic ranging system

The software is divided into two parts, the main program and the interrupt service program, as shown in Figure 3 (a) (b) (c). The main program completes the initialization work and the control of the ultrasonic transmission and reception sequence of each channel.

The timer interrupt service subroutine completes the three-way ultrasonic emission in turn. The external interrupt service subroutine mainly completes the reading of time values, distance calculation, and output of results.

V. Conclusion

Many measurements have been made on the plane objects within the required measurement range of 30cm ~ 200cm, and the maximum error is 0.5cm, and the repeatability is good. It can be seen that the ultrasonic ranging system based on the single-chip microcomputer has the characteristics of simple hardware structure, reliable operation and small measurement error. Therefore, it can be used not only in mobile robots, but also in other detection systems.

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