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Android Mobile Phone Controlled Bluetooth Robot

Using 8051 Microcontroller
Ritika Pahuja1, Narender Kumar2
1, 2

Electronics & Communication Engineering, Department, BRCM College of Engineering & Technology, Bahal, India

Abstract: A robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Many robots have
been built for manufacturing purpose and can be found in factories around the world. Designing of the latest inverted ROBOT which
can be controlling using an APP for android mobile. We are developing the remote buttons in the android app by which we can control
the robot motion with them. And in which we use Bluetooth communication to interface controller and android. Controller can be
interfaced to the Bluetooth module though UART protocol. According to commands received from android the robot motion can be
controlled. The consistent output of a robotic system along with quality and repeatability are unmatched. Pick and Place robots can be
reprogrammable and tooling can be interchanged to provide for multiple applications.

Keywords: Android Smartphone, Bluetooth module, robot, single microcontroller chip

1. Introduction

2. Purpose

Nowadays smart phones are becoming more powerful with

reinforced processors, larger storage capacities, richer
entertainment function and more communication methods.
Bluetooth is mainly used for data exchange; add new
features to smart phones. Bluetooth technology, created by
telecom vendor Ericsson in 1994[1], shows its advantage
by integrating with smart phones. It has changed how
people use digital device at home or office, and has
transferred traditional wired digital devices into wireless
devices. A host Bluetooth device is capable of
communicating with up to seven Bluetooth modules at
same time through one link [2]. Considering its normal
working area of within eight meters, it is especially useful
in home environment. Thank for Bluetooth technology and
other similar techniques, with dramatic increase in
Smartphone users, smart phones have gradually turned
into an all-purpose portable device and provided people
for their daily use [3][4]. In recent years, an open-source
platform Android has been widely used in smart phones
[5]. Android has complete software package consisting of
an operating system, middleware layer and core
applications. Different from other existing platform like
iOS (iPhone OS), it comes with software development kit
(SDK), which provides essential tools and Application.
Using a Smartphone as the brain of a robot is already an
active research field with several open opportunities and
promising possibilities. In this paper we present a review
of current robots controlled by mobile phone and discuss a
closed loop control systems using audio channels of
mobile devices, such as phones and tablet computers. In
our work, move the robot upward, backward, left and right
side by the android application such as Arduino Bluetooth
RC Car. This article is organized as follow: Section 2
describes the motivation of the work, Section 3 describes
our experimental setup, Section 4 depicts a discussion
about our experimental setup and Section 5 presents our
conclusions.

The purpose of our research is to provide simpler robots

hardware architecture but with powerful computational
platforms so that robots designer can focus on their
research and tests instead of Bluetooth connection
infrastructure. This simple architecture is also useful for
educational robotics, because students can build their own
robots with low cost and use them as platform for
experiments in several courses.
Common control architectures: The following list shows
typical robot control architecture:
2.1. AT89S52
The AT89S52 is a low-power, high performance CMOS 8bit microcontroller with 8k bytes of in-system
programmable flash memory. The device is manufactured
using Atmels high-density nonvolatile memory
technology and is compatible with the industry-standard
80C51 instruction set and pin out. The Atmel AT89S52 is
a powerful microcontroller which provides a highlyflexible and cost-effective solution to many embedded
control applications.
The AT89S52 Provides the following standard features:
8K bytes of flash, 256 bytes of RAM, 32 I/O lines,
Watchdog timer, two data pointers, three 16-bit
timer/counters, a
six-vector
two-level
interrupt
architecture, a full duplex serial port, on-chip oscillator,
and clock circuitry. The AT89S52 is designed with static
logic for operation down to zero frequency and supports
two software selectable power saving modes. The powerdown mode saves the RAM contents but freezes the
oscillator, disabling all other chip function until the next
interrupt or hardware reset.
2.2. HC Serial Bluetooth
HC Serial Bluetooth product consists of Bluetooth serial
interface module and Bluetooth adapter. Bluetooth serial
module is used for converting serial port to Bluetooth.
This module has two modes: master and slaver device. The

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device named after even number is defined to be master or
slaver when out of factory and cant changed to the other
mode. But for the device named after odd number, users
can set the work mode (master or slaver) of the device by
AT commands.
HC-06 Specifically includes:
Master device: HC-06-M, M=Master
Slaver device: HC-06-S, S=Slaver
The main function of Bluetooth serial module is replacing
the serial port line, such as:
One connects to Bluetooth master device while the other
one connect to slaver device. Their connection can be built
once the pair is made. This Bluetooth connection is
equivalently liked to a serial port line connection including
RXD, TXD signals. And they can communicate with each
other.
1.
2.

3.

When MCU has Bluetooth salve module, it can

communicate with Bluetooth adapter of computer and
smart phones.
The Bluetooth devices in the market mostly are salve
devices, such as Bluetooth printer, Bluetooth GPS. So
, we can use master module to make pair and
communicate with them.
Bluetooth serial modules operation doesnt need
drive, and can communicate with the other Bluetooth
device. But communication between two Bluetooth
module require at two conditions:
i) The communication must be between master and
slave.
ii) The password must be correct.

Here are the main factory parameter of HC-05 and HC-06.

Pay attention to the difference:
Table 1.1
HC-05
Master and Slave mode can be
switched
Bluetooth Name: HC-05
Password: 1234

HC-06
Master and Slave mode cant be
switched
Bluetooth Name: HC-06
Password: 1234

2.4 DC MOTOR
Almost every mechanical movement that we see around us
is accomplished by an electric motor. Electric machines
are means of converting energy. Motors take electrical
energy and produce mechanical energy. Electric motor is
used to power hundreds of devices we use in everyday life.
An example of small motor applications includes motors
used in automobiles, robot, hand power tools and food
blenders. Micro-machines are electric machines with parts
the size of red blood cells and find many applications in
medicine.
2.5 UART
Universal asynchronous receiver/ transmitter is usually an
individual
integrated
circuit
used
for
serial
communications over a computer or peripheral device
serial port. UART are now commonly included in
microcontrollers. A dual UART combines two UARTS
into a single chip. Many modern ICs come with a UART
that can also communicate synchronously; these devices
are called UART.

3. Block Diagram
A smart phone Android operated robot. Now here is a
simple to control your robot/robo car using Bluetooth
module HC-06 and 89c2051 microcontroller with your
android Smartphone device. The controlling devices of the
whole system are a microcontroller. Bluetooth module, DC
motors are interfaced to the microcontroller. The data
receive by the Bluetooth module from android smart
phone is fed as input to the controller. The controller acts
accordingly on the DC motor of the robot. The robot in the
project can be made to move in all the four directions
using the android phone. The direction of the robot is
indicators using LED indicators of the Robot system. In
achieving the task the controller is loaded with program
written using Embedded C Languages. Android smart
phone controller Bluetooth robot using microcontroller is
shown in figure 1.1.

2.3. L293D
The L293 and L293D are quadruple high-current half H
drivers. The L293 IS designed to provide bidirectional
drive currents of up to 1A at voltage from 4.5V to 36V.
The L293D is designed to provide bidirectional drive
currents of up to 600-MA at voltages from 4.5V to 36V.
Both devices are designed to drive inductive loads such as
relays, solenoids, dc and bipolor stepping motors, as well
as other high-current/high voltage loads in positive-supply
applications.
On the L293D, external high-speed output clamp diodes
should be used for inductive transient suppression. A Vcc1
terminal, separate from Vcc2, is provided for the logic
inputs to minimize device power dissipation. The L293
and L293D are characterized for operation from 0C to
70C.
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Figure 1.1: Block diagram of android smart phone

controller Bluetooth robot using 89s51 microcontroller

4. Application Instructions
4.1 First make sure your HC-06 Bluetooth module is
paired with your mobile. The default password for pairing
is 1234 or 0000. Check the manual of Bluetooth
module.
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4.2 Click on SELECT DEVICE icon to select paired
Bluetooth module.
4.3 When press up arrow it sends the data A to
Bluetooth module connected with the circuit. When
microcontroller detects A the robot/robot car moves
FORWORD.
4.4 When press DOWN ARROW it sends the data B
to Bluetooth module connected with the circuit. When
microcontroller detects B the robot/robot car moves
REVERSE.
4.5 When press LEFT ARROW it sends the data C to
Bluetooth module connected with the circuit. When
microcontroller defects C the robot/robot car turns
LEFT.
4.6 When press RIGHT ARROW it sends the data D
to Bluetooth module connected with the circuit. When
microcontroller defects D the robot/robot car turns
RIGHT.
4.7 When press STOP button which is in the centre of
remote it sends the data E to the Bluetooth module
connected with the circuit. When microcontroller defects
E the robot/robot car gets stopped
4.8 Click on DISCONNECT icon to disconnect paired
Bluetooth module.

Figure 1.4: to bluetooth connection on to move the robot

forword,backword,left and right direction

Figure 1.5: Android phone bluetooth controller

ROBOT/ROBO
Figure 1.2: arduino bluetooth rc car application

5. Conclusion
The objective of the paper is to realise the smart living ,
more specifically the home lighting control system using
Bluetooth Technology. Robot and smartphones are a
perfect match, specially mobile robots. As phones and
mobile devices are each time more powerful, using them
as robot for building robot with advanced feature such as
voice recognition. Android bluetooth-enable phones and
bluetooth module via HC-06 and communication among
bluetooth devices. It is concluded that smart living will
gradually turn into areality that consumer can control their
home romotely and wirelessly.

6. Future Work
Figure 1.3: bluetooth connection search

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The knowledge is ever expanding and so are the problems

which the mankind strive to solve. In this spirit, it is hoped
that the current activity will lead to further enhancements.
For example; work on future for military purpose by the
robot.

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