ENGR 2167 : DAQ with MATLAB,

ARDUINO
Summer 2014
Week 1

Traffic Lights System

Kirti Deo Mishra

mishra.98
May 13, 2014

/*
ENGR 2167 : HW1, TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM
KIRTI DEO MISHRA
About :
The system has basically four states:
1. N-S Red, E-W Green, All others off - longer period
2. N-S Red, E-W Yellow, All others off - shorter period
3. N-S Green, E-W Red, All others off - longer period
4. N-S Yellow, E-W Red, All others off - shorter period
First a basic control flow is written which uses delay() to simulate automated
traffic light system(this doesn't take into account real time element). Later on
the control will be modified to incorporate pedestrian walking.
After the basic testing of traffic light system with the delay() statement, a function
waitFor() was created which is a while loop which in turns call flashLt() to flash the LED.
*/
// Defining pins for traffic light(TL)
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byte
byte
byte
byte

eastGreenPin = 14;
eastYellowPin = 15;
eastRedPin = 16;
northGreenPin = 19;
northYellowPin = 18;
northRedPin = 17;

// For pedestrian scanning

int pedFlashTime = 400;
byte pFlag = 0;
byte pedCrossingPin = 5; // Pedestrian Wlking Light
byte pedButtonPin = 4; // Walk-request button
unsigned long fTimer = 0;// For Flashing the LED
byte dummyFlash = 1; // For Flashing the LED
byte state = 1;
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(9600);
// Seting TL pin modes to output
2

pinMode(eastGreenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(eastYellowPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(eastRedPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(northGreenPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(northYellowPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(northRedPin, OUTPUT);
// For pedestrian scanning
pinMode(pedCrossingPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(pedButtonPin, INPUT_PULLUP);
// Checking the light system(all lights on and off)
// Arguments of lightControl() - eG, eY, eR, nG, nY, nR
//lightControl(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1);
//delay(2000);
//lightControl(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
//delay(1000);
}

void loop()
{
//First Getting the basic TL system working(control Flow) with delay()
// Then Real Time Programming
switch(state)
{
case 1:
lightControl(1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1);
//delay(5000);
// If in a cycle pFlag is raised(button pressed, LED goes solid here.
if(pFlag == 1)
{
digitalWrite(pedCrossingPin, HIGH);
// Also the status of pedestrian walk-request goes low
pFlag = 0;
}
waitFor(5000);
// When the system leaves this state then the pedestrian light which
// was solid(if blinking at all) should turn off.
digitalWrite(pedCrossingPin, LOW);

break;
case 2:
lightControl(0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1);
//delay(2000);
waitFor(2000);
break;
case 3:
lightControl(0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0);
//delay(5000);
waitFor(5000);
break;
case 4:
lightControl(0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0);
//delay(2000);
waitFor(2000);
break;
}
state++;
if(state>4)
{
state = 1;
}

}
/*
Time Period is the time states in the problem statement like 5000 ms for Green
and Red lights.
*/
void waitFor(int timePeriod)
{
unsigned long startDelayTime = millis();
// Creating a count-down loop
while((millis()-startDelayTime) <= timePeriod)
{
// checking the button press and setting the flag if pressed
if(digitalRead(pedButtonPin) == 0)
{
pFlag = 1;
}
// Extra if statement to make sure that as soon as ped. presses
4

// button the light starts flashing

if(pFlag == 1)
{
flashLt(pedFlashTime);
}
}
}
void flashLt(int pedFlashTime)
{
if(fTimer == 0)
{
fTimer = millis();
}
if((millis()-fTimer < pedFlashTime))
{
digitalWrite(pedCrossingPin, dummyFlash);
}
else
{
fTimer = millis();
dummyFlash =! dummyFlash;
}
}
void lightControl(byte eG, byte eY, byte eR, byte nG, byte nY, byte nR)
{
digitalWrite(eastGreenPin, eG);
digitalWrite(eastYellowPin, eY);
digitalWrite(eastRedPin, eR);
digitalWrite(northGreenPin, nG);
digitalWrite(northYellowPin, nY);
digitalWrite(northRedPin, nR);
}

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