TW201510959A - Interactive plug-and-play electronic modules - Google Patents

Abstract

This invention which is entitled "Interactive plug-and-play electronic modules" is a simple and effective interdisciplinary and interactive module. Since the traditional method often takes a little time to finish the configuration of the hardware and firmware platform and most of them is not a flexible platform to support the creative idea implementations. The problem of arranging the different input and output modules is creatively transformed into a function matching problem. Therefore, buzzer, optical sensors, the power supply, the master authority, the several network protocols and the unknown applications can be easily integrated into the novel set of modules. By using the plug-and-play interactive approach and more and more functionalities of modules production, more and more and interesting ideas can be implemented easily and efficiently. Now the user-defined commands can transmitted to the first modules of the matched configuration modules system and then the other slave modules can be programmable according to the user commands. This invention also devises a simple voltage-detection method which automatically determines the following module type according to the output voltage of the connected module. The detection mechanism reduces the traditional complex approaches and works properly without additional hardware. This invention could mostly be implemented in the form of the microcontroller-relative firmware and hardware. It is too simple to be interdisciplinary for vocational senior high school students, junior students of university of science and technology and the non-electronic students.

Description

Plug and play interactive electronic device

The present invention relates to an interactive device structure with a plug-and-play mechanism for providing a wireless remote control function and a connection module capable of completing a connection module through voltage detection; in particular, how to achieve expansion through a pairing mechanism when the module is serially connected The diversity of interactive modules presented in different contexts, and thus their application in cross-domain electronic motor creative teaching aids.

Common LEGO modules in the market (such as IEEE Transactions on,EDUCATION,VOL.54,NO.3, pp.452-461 and Parallax Inc., http://www.parallax.com/), motion control theory Such as 2010 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL.57, NO.10, pp.3297-3307) or motor control teaching experimental version (such as 2012 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION, VOL.55, NO.4, NOVEMBER, pp508- 516), the method is mostly to provide a complete set of hardware circuits with firmware, and with the necessary algorithms. The fixed experimental version of the scientific engineering education experimental platform is easily limited to a single platform that can only carry out teaching objectives and develop practical skills on specific topics. For example, LEGO's teaching platform is limited to a fixed hardware teaching platform, the firmware program can only adjust some parameters, students can learn skills on the platform is limited; some teaching platforms can be firmware update, but limited by hardware Circuits, the limited hardware project provided is limited. If such research is performed, the firmware adjustment will be difficult due to the unclear relationship between the register and the connection.

The technical method LittleBits uses system detection to achieve system functions through automatic detection. Through any combination of modules to attract readers to learn to enhance the teaching effect (http://littlebits.cc/ is the company's website, there is no in-depth discussion of journal articles). Its characteristic is that the circuit pin is used as a communication mechanism in a fixed form, but it does not discuss the complexity of the hardware or firmware program to detect the serial module; the relevant information is not explored. Between the module negotiation methods (autonegations), it is impossible to judge whether to achieve module communication and reduce transmission packets through flexible communication protocols. It is worth mentioning that the mechanism does not discuss the module matching mechanism and the output modules are many. Fixing a form is not easy to produce more combinations, providing a context for creative thinking.

This creation uses innovative ideas to transform the creative combination of different input and output modules into a module pairing problem, so sound, light sensing, power supply, master and wireless network protocols, and other useful functions in the future are easily integrated into this work. . Compared with the current literature teaching tools or patents, this creation not only provides the realization of creative thinking situations, but also provides the functions required for hot plugging and module expansion to meet the user's creative thinking. And the interactive module is integrated into the teaching result, and the user command is transmitted to the first module of the serial configuration by the simple and easy to use mixed wireless communication form (mobile communication and wireless network), and transmitted through the inter-module agreement. Information and commands to achieve all module function settings. It can be used as a learning platform for high school students, junior college students and non-undergraduate students, achieving the goal of cross-disciplinary learning and creation.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the basic configuration of a series connection of a plug-and-play interactive electronic device according to the present invention.

2 is a schematic diagram of a composite configuration of a "plug-and-play interactive electronic device" module in series according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of voltage detection of a plug-and-play interactive electronic device module according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a module configuration setting procedure using a mobile phone in accordance with the present invention for a plug-and-play interactive electronic device module.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a simple transmission packet format between a main control module and a controlled function module of a “plug and play interactive electronic device” according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a complex transmission packet format 1 between a main control module (single master) and a controlled function (single slave) module using a "plug and play interactive electronic device" according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a complex transmission packet format 2 between a main control module (single master) and a controlled function (dual slave) module using a "plug and play interactive electronic device" according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing the functions of a plug-and-play interactive electronic device module according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram showing the five-pair pairing of the IR sensor and the five output components according to the present invention regarding the application of the plug-and-play interactive electronic device module function to the pairing problem.

10 is a schematic diagram of a product usage scenario for learning cross-domain learning using a "plug and play interactive electronic device" in accordance with the present invention.

A preferred method of the invention is shown in Figure 1. The module serial configuration includes three types: power module, master module and slave module. The main control module can send commands to the controlled function module. After accepting the command, the controlled function module will make appropriate settings according to the commands, and then respond according to the commands.

Figure 2 represents a preferred embodiment of a composite configuration of modular connections. The firmware configuration of the serial configuration different from the first embodiment of FIG. 1 can detect more than two sets of main control modules, and such a change can make the module serial configuration more general, through additional firmware. The mechanism allows the user to not limit the serial configuration to only a single master module.

FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of the module voltage detection. For the basic module serial configuration provided in FIG. 1, the voltage detection module can provide a simple but effective method for quickly detecting each module. What kind of function configuration is used for the module to be connected later? It is worth mentioning that the detection voltage of this work does not require additional hardware and software by presetting the corresponding function of the module function and the detection voltage.

Figure 4 represents a preferred embodiment of a wireless network state in which the modules are serially connected. The third specific preferred embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that a wireless control module is added to FIG. The main control module of the serial module can accept commands through the wireless network, allowing the remote user to transmit commands to the remote main control module through the wireless mechanism, and the main control module can then transmit commands to other controlled function modules. Group, let each controlled function module make the appropriate output. This mechanism allows the setter to control the remote electronic device without being restricted to the computer.

Figure 5 represents a specific embodiment of a simple transport packet format between an application master module and a controlled function module. The packet format will contain the controller number and the content of the command to be executed. The specified controlled function module can make the specified output behavior by passing the packet.

Figure 6 represents a first specific preferred embodiment of a complex transport packet format 1 between a master module (single master) and a controlled function (single slave) module. Different from the first embodiment of FIG. 5, in FIG. 6, the basic transmission mode is used to control two main control boards, and the single main control module sends commands to a single controlled function module, and the controlled function module can be completely set. The output behavior.

Figure 7 represents the complex transmission packet format between the main control module (single master) and the controlled function (dual slave) module. A second specific preferred embodiment. Different from the first embodiment, in FIG. 7, a single master module can control the initialization of two controlled function modules by command, and make a designated output function.

Figure 8 represents a preferred embodiment of the functionality of the module. All modules can be divided into main control modules and controlled function modules. In the future, other development functions will be integrated into these two types of modules to enhance the expanded functionality of this work.

Figure 9 represents a first specific preferred embodiment of the module function conversion to pairing problem. Different from the specific embodiment of FIG. 1 , in FIG. 9 , the original module function is converted into a graph theory matching problem, and the main control module and the controlled function module can improve the output performance in the setting context function through the pairing mechanism.

Figure 10 represents a schematic diagram of the use of products with cross-domain learning. Through the development of the module matching mechanism, the user's learning motivation is improved. Different from the embodiment of FIG. 1, the advantages of cross-domain learning will be explained in FIG. 10, and multiple functional modules are designed (using IR infrared, LED gradient light bar, ultrasonic ranging and sound generation module as an example, the actual application is not here). limit). Design product usage scenarios, expand the scope of use through the module matching mechanism, and use the wireless network to set the usage context to improve user learning efficiency.

Power‧‧‧Power Module

Master‧‧‧Master Module

Slave‧‧‧ controlled function

Vcc‧‧‧ supply voltage

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Claims (8)

A plug-and-play interactive electronic device and its cross-domain electronic motor creative teaching aid, comprising: (a) providing cross-domain learning, allowing use of creatively combining different input and output modules, and pairing through developed interactive modules Mechanisms improve learning motivation and efficiency. (b) The Master and Slave module interface circuits required for the interactive module pairing mechanism can be implemented by the microcontroller hardware and software. (c) The module has an automatic judging module connected to the module function. This detection function can be achieved by voltage-detection. (d) The module serial connection system can achieve all module function settings by hybrid wireless communication. The first step is to transmit the user command to the wireless network mode through the mobile phone interface, and transmit the command to the first main control module in series by wireless, and the second step uses the inter-module agreement to transmit information and commands, and set and Other modules connected to the main control module. According to the method of claim 1, wherein the interactive module pairing problem comprises (i) a system consisting of a master module and a controlled module (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2), (ii) a voltage detecting mechanism Detecting the module type of the connection between the interactive modules (Fig. 3), (iii) according to the module serial connection system, the user command can be transmitted to the first module of the serial configuration in the form of hybrid wireless communication (as shown in the figure) 4), and (iv) transfer the inter-module agreement to transfer information and commands to achieve all module function settings (Figure 4). According to the method of claim 2, wherein the interactive module pairing configuration comprises (i) a module type that detects a connection between the interactive modules via a voltage detecting mechanism, and (ii) a user sets the mode through a hybrid wireless communication mode. All module function settings (Figure 4). According to the method of claim 3, in the initialization state of the module pairing problem, a voltage-based mechanism can be applied, and the function type of the subsequent connection module can be judged through the preset voltage range (see FIG. 3). According to the method of claim 1, wherein the module serial connection configuration can transmit information in a hybrid wireless communication mode (i) after the configuration is configured using a mobile phone, the user command is transmitted by the wireless network protocol to Serial configuration of the first module, (ii) transmission of information and commands through the inter-module agreement, to achieve all module function settings (Figure 4). According to the method of claim 2, the inter-module communication packet format includes (i) description of the transmission packet format (Fig. 5), (ii) basic serial configuration to implement a single master module and multiple receivers. The control module (Figure 6), and (iii) the composite configuration realizes the serial configuration of multiple master modules and multiple controlled modules (Figure 7). According to the method of claim 3, wherein the module serial configuration is diverse, comprising (i) a single control module and a single output reaction module, (ii) a single control module, and a plurality of output reaction modules. (iii) multiple control modules and multiple output response modules, and (iv) multiple control modules and multiple output response modules with wireless communication modules (Figures 8 and 9). According to the method of the first application of the patent scope, in addition to the basic configuration and the composite configuration to achieve the general teaching aid function (Figure 1 and Figure 2), the module pairing rule mechanism can be further integrated to automatically generate a variety of meaningful matching combinations (such as Figure 8 and Figure IX), as well as the hybrid wireless communication to achieve the function of setting the first main control module and the subsequent connection module (Figure 4), the cross-domain learning product use situation (Figure 10).