HIFUAnimalMonitor

Overview

A Temperature controlled animal bed with heart rate and temperature monitoring.

This project features an LCD screen application with button user-input, it reads sensor data from 3 sensors, displays the live data and transmits it over a TCP server.

The temperature control can be set through the buttons or remotely from a client, which uses a P.I.D Controller to output different Duty Cycles to the current driver for resistive heating control.

Software

source code for P.I.D process, LCD screen, Communicating with the Arduino and the interactive APP are implemented in Python.

Source code for reading sensor data and writing it to serial is implemented in C and C++. All are provided as described below:

Directory Layout

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├── doc/                   # Documentation files (alternatively `doc`)  
│   ├── README_SETUP.md           # Step by step Arudino, raspberypi and environment installation.
│   ├── README_HW_SETUP.md        # Documentation of electrical and Materials Construction.
|   └──
├── src/
|   ├── capstonepi/        # source code running on the pi.
|   |   ├── constants.yaml        # a Configuration file with P.I.D constants and application settings.  
|   |   ├── MonitorController.py  # our 'main' Class, which instantiates the rest, starts the server and handles app logic.  
|   |   ├── MonitorPID.py         # A threaded class responsible for running the P.I.D process and controlling the bed temp.
|   |   ├── MonitorPID.py         # A threaded class responsible for running the P.I.D process and controlling the bed temp.
|   |   ├── Wiki_PID.py           # P.I.D controls specific library.
|   |   ├── MonitorServer.py      # Server class for communicating with the clients and broadcasting readings.
|   |   ├── HardwareSensors.py    # A threaded class responsible for communication with the Arduino to retrieve sensor readings continously.
|   |   └──
|   ├── Arduino/           # source code running on the Arduino.
|   |   ├── communicate.ino       # Arduino Code for reading the sensor data and writing it to serial.
|   |   ├── libraries/            # Arduino sensor libs.
|   |   └──
|   ├── calibration        # code used for P.I.D calibration and analysis, as well as heating-system logs directory.
|   |   ├── plot_test.py          # a plotting tool used for heating system analysis
|   |   ├── test_logs/            # a directory where P.I.D process test logs are stored if `save_logs` is set to true in constants.yaml
|   |   └──
|   ├── client/            # Client GUI and
|   |   ├── MonitorClient.py             # Client file for interacting with MonitorServer.py
|   |   ├── Widget_AnimalMonitor.py      # Client GUI python example, can be used as an example for building similiar GUIs within applications.
|   |   └──
├── setup.py               # setup file
└──

Maintainers:

• Amine Benaceur, Project Manager ( Contact: abenaceur12@gmail.com )

Developers:

• Amine Benaceur
• Ryan Ward
• Farhad Alishov