EE5206 Embedded System Design 2022
EE5206 Embedded System Design 2022
Faculty of Engineering
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
If you have any doubts to the interpretation of the wording of a question, make your own
decision, but clearly state the assumptions on the script.
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Question 1
An Intelligent Automated Robot is proposed for monitoring the public places and maintain the
health guidelines during COVID 19 pandemic. Following functions are proposed for the robot.
• Do random checks for infected people in public space, i.e. check temperature.
• Monitor the adherence to the safety guidelines such as wearing face mask and
maintaining the social distance.
• Keep records and inform the suspicious cases to the central monitoring station
• Educate randomly selected people regarding the safety guidelines
• Autonomously navigate in the given environment based on the availability of crowd
• Friendly interaction with the people
ii) Illustrate the proposed embedded system and indicate the main sections and the worker
flow during the operation. [10 marks]
iii) State the requirement list for the proposed system [10 marks]
iv) Identify the inputs and the outputs of the proposed automated solution and draw the
overall functional block diagram. Indicate the subsystems in the same diagram.
[20 marks]
v) Indicate the physical locations of the relevant sensors and actuators in the same diagram
of section ii). [20 marks]
vi) Assume that the system controller for platform is implemented by a microcontroller.
Briefly explain the pre-design stage and identify the main features that should be
considered in selecting the microcontroller. [10 marks]
vii) Discuss the design stage of embedded system design process and draw the structure chart
of hardware partitioning and the activity diagram of the program flow. Consider one
session of operation. [20 marks]