Intelligent Train Engines

The project is divided in two parts

  1. Transmitter
  2. Receiver

The transmitter is housed in signal pole and it is activated only when red light is ON.

The receiver is housed in engine which senses the IR signals and takes suitable action.

Signal Pole IR Transmitter:-

The figure shows the schematic diagram of IR transmitter.

Schematic diagram of IR transmitter.
Schematic diagram of IR transmitter.

The heart of the circuit is IC555. The main component of the circuit is only IC555.

Connections:

Both ICs are connected in astable mode. The frequency of U2 is 0.5 Hz and U1 is 38 KHz. This is decided by RC components connected with it. The output of U2 is connected with reset pin (4) of U1. Thus the output of U2 controls the operation of U1 means it will switch on or off the output of U1. The output of U1 is fed to two IR LEDs through Darlington pair made up of Q1, Q2 and R5. The 9V DC battery is connected with circuit through SPDT switch SW1 as shown.

Operation:

As shown in figure when SW1 is in position as shown the transmitter is On and also the red LED is also ON. When switch changes its position the red LED and transmitter is off and only green LED will on. When the circuit is energized U2 will start generating high pulse at every 1 sec. as this pulse is fed to reset pin of U1 it will generate 38 KHz square wave and give it to IR leds. IR leds will generate IR beam of 38 KHz for the same time. Thus after every one second the IR beam of 38 KHz is generated for one second only. This cycle repeats till the red light is on.

Note: The range of this transmitter is limited to 10 ft only.

89C51 based IR receiver for Engine:

The IR receiver circuit housed in engine is as shown below.

IR receiver circuit
IR receiver circuit

The main components of the circuit are IR sensor TSOP 1738, microcontroller 89C51, current driver chip ULN2003A and all voltage regulator ICs (78XX series).

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321 thoughts on “Intelligent Train Engines

  1. respected sir
    i m doing my final year project on intelligent train engine plz send me list of component nd details related to project….

  2. sir, i am doing project on intelligent train so i want all it’s component list nd procedure tat how to make it and also which is better in intelligent train using pic microcontroller or 8051 microcontroller……………… plz thanq.

  3. I AM DOING BTECH APPLIED ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION…I WOULD LIKE TO DO THIS PROJECT
    BUT I HAVE SOME DOUBT ABOUT “IR LED” AND IR SENSOR [TSOP]
    1.WHAT IS THE RANGE OF IR LED ?
    2.WHAT IS PROPER RANGE OF TSOP?
    3. WHAT IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE IR LED AND TSOP?
    4.IN OUR PROJECT WE FACE SMALL PROBLEM ,TRANSMITTER CIRCUIT AND RECEIVER CIRCUT HAVE INDIVIDUAL OUTPUT. BUT TSOP IS NOT SENSING THE IR BEAM.
    I HUMBLY REQUEST YOU TO PLZ REPLY THIS MSG

  4. what will happen, if the red signal gets on when the train is very close to the signal pole? how our project will handle this situation..

    Plz answer as soon as possible..

  5. sir i want to do this project…so plz send me components list ,crt diagram,code and neccesesary instruction..

    what will happen, if the red signal gets on when the train is very close to the signal pole? how our project will handle this situation..
    Plz answer as soon as possible..

  6. sir,i am in 4th year and i am doing this project.but i dont have c code of this project.and my second problem is how to burn this code in controller.i am using keil uvision3 and flash magic.plz help me.
    plz ans asap.

  7. the value of all components basically capacitors and resistors are not displayed properly.its very difficult to buy appropriate components.so kindly send me the components list thnks.

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