Download or read book Design Software Engineering and Implementation of an Embedded Telemetry System for a Solar Powered Racing Car written by Thorsten Jungmann and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: An embedded telemetry system has been designed and implemented into the solar-powered racing car Mad Dog 3 . The system shall assist strategists in making decisions during a solar car race. It delivers input data for a computer simulation model and for reconstruction of situations when failure occurred. System requirements have been analysed and the scope of solutions on the market has been explored. As a result, the choice of hardware and peripheral components has been made in favour of a microcomputer-based system. Strategy-relevant quantities in the solar car are measured by transducers and at the same time displayed on panel meters in the cockpit. Measured data are transmitted via a bus system to the central processing unit, which consists of the world s smallest PC. From the sensor signals the car s performance data is computed. As a result of computation, sets of performance data are sent to a laptop computer in one of the support vehicles by a pair of wireless modems. For safety reason, the system has been designed redundant. There is a digital device and a second analogue instrument for all key measurements. Communication equipment between the solar car driver and support staff has been reviewed and recommendations have been given. The project has been completed successfully, i.e. project aims have been reached. This was confirmed during a test drive. The range of the wireless modems has been proven satisfactory. CB radios have been shown not to be appropriate. There is a wide scope of additional investigation and supplementary features, due to the flexible nature of a microcomputer-based system. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Notationii 1.Introduction1 1.1Solar Energy3 1.2Solar Car Racing4 1.2.1ASC Race Regulations6 2.Project Work7 2.1Project Aims7 2.2Project management9 2.3Fund Raising11 2.4Research.12 2.4.1Telemetry12 2.4.2Previous Work15 2.4.3Types of Telemetry Systems17 2.4.4Embedded Systems.19 2.5Design21 2.5.1Requirements21 2.5.2Components24 2.5.3Software Engineering28 2.5.4Test and Debugging32 2.6Implementation33 2.7Maintenance34 2.8Communication35 3.Recommendations37 References38 Appendix39

Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Download or read book The Winning Solar Car written by Douglad Carroll and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful solar car team must have a good car, good drivers, good weather information, good strategy, and a well-trained support team. Based on the author's experiences designing and building five solar cars over a ten year period, this book focuses on the most imporant aspects of designing a competitive solar car, including developing a racing strategy, efficient solar car driving, project management, and designing the specific subsystems of the car. Chapters cover: Design Methodology Aerodynamics of Solar Cars Composite Materials Car Balance and Spring Rates and more

Download or read book Design of a Sensor Network and Wireless Telemetry Data Node for the SunStang Solar Car written by Tom Gwozdz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Algorithm SoC Design for Automotive Vision Systems written by Jaeseok Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emerging trend in the automobile industry is its convergence with information technology (IT). Indeed, it has been estimated that almost 90% of new automobile technologies involve IT in some form. Smart driving technologies that improve safety as well as green fuel technologies are quite representative of the convergence between IT and automobiles. The smart driving technologies include three key elements: sensing of driving environments, detection of objects and potential hazards and the generation of driving control signals including warning signals. Although radar-based systems are primarily used for sensing the driving environments, the camera has gained importance in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). This book covers system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs—including both algorithms and hardware—related with image sensing and object detection by using the camera for smart driving systems. It introduces a variety of algorithms such as lens correction, super resolution, image enhancement and object detections from the images captured by low-cost vehicle camera. This is followed by implementation issues such as SoC architecture, hardware accelerator, software development environment and reliability techniques for automobile vision systems. This book is aimed for the new and practicing engineers in automotive and chip-design industries to provide some overall guidelines for the development of automotive vision systems. It will also help graduate students understand and get started for the research work in this field.

Download or read book Automotive Software Connected Services in Mobile Networks written by Manfred Broy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First Automotive Software Workshop, ASWD 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in January 2004. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 lectures held at the workshop that brought together experts from industry and academia, working on highly complex, distributed, reactive software systems related to the automotive domain.

Download or read book A Strategy Planning Program for the MIT Solar Powered Racing Vehicle written by Bruce Eric Larson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementation of a Solar Power Based IoT System to Find the Position of Any Products in Logistics Or Superstores written by Syed Golam Kibria and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of an Advanced Electrical System for a Solar Powered Racing Vehicle with an Emphasis on the Battery Protection and Management System written by Frederick Donald Engelkemeir and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes the development of an electrical system for a solar powered racing vehicle with en emphasis on the Battery Protection System (BPS). This battery protection system was designed for the UTSVT's (University of Texas Solar Vehicles Team) solar powered vehicle, the Samsung Solorean. The system is required due to the dangers of the lithium-ion cobalt battery chemistry. The system monitors the voltage, temperature, and current of each battery module in the 22 module battery pack and will physically isolate the pack from the rest of the vehicle with a high-current electromechanical contactor if any parameter is outside of the safe range. The system can be expanded to monitor any number of series battery cells. The system uses a master-slave microcontroller architecture with a single master microcontroller that interrogates several slave microcontroller boards for readings over a common serial bus. The system uses a new voltage sensing ASIC to monitor cell voltages, along with an analog current output device to measure temperature and a hall-effect device to measure current. The system was a complete success and has allowed the UT solar car to finish the American Solar Challenge cross-country "Rayce."

Download or read book Power System Design for Solar Car written by Sunil Shanaz Redzuan Perpinder and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solar car power system consists of three main subsystems which are the solar array, battery management and lastly, battery pack. It is arguably the most essential system of a solar car since it generates power for the car thus vastly influences the functionality of the car itself. This project was carried out to design a solar car power system that is feasible, cost effective and in compliance with the rules and regulations of the 2011 World Solar Challenge (WSC). The main objective of this project was to design an electrical layout of a solar car power system with components that are properly selected as well as carrying out analysis to determine the practicality and compatibilty of the design. The design of the power system was divided into four levels which were the selection of subsystems' mian components, design of the subsystems, the conditioning of the power system and finally, the design of the overall power system itself. These steps involved drawing of design, design calculations and analysis of compatibilty within the power system. The drawings involved in the design of the system were done via Solidworks 2010 and SmartDraw 2010 softwares. The finalized design delivered a power system that could generate a maximum power of 837.6W through its solar array designed by tabbed monocrystalline solar cells. The power generated would be stored in a battery pack which consists of five VRLA batteries with a combined power capacity of 6.4kWh. A buck type maximum power point tracker configures the input from the solar array to the battery pack. Motor controller of the actuation system would configure the power system to continuously supply 1kW to the motor. It is calculated that in ideal conditions, the power system can continously power the motor for at least 11.99 hours which is already sufficient for a day of solar racing. The results and discussion concluded that the design of the solar car power system is feasible to be implemented and is considerably cost effective, within the financial prowess of the university. Through proper justifications, the design is also proven to be compatible within the system itself. For further improvements in the future, this project should be conducted with a greater budget so that rather than coming up with a conceptual design, a fabrication or at least a better form of design simulation can be done. Besides that, with greater budget, better components that are more costly are then affordable.

Download or read book Computer simulation of a solar powered race car written by Randy L. Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Design Implementation Evaluation and Results of a Race Car for the Collegiate Formula SAE Electric Competition written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Formula SAE Electric competition is a collegiate autocross event in which teams design, build, and race an open-wheeled electric race car. The main motivation is the efficiency advantage of electric motors over internal combustion motors. This thesis presents the design and evaluation of two generations of Portland State University electric race cars. The constraints are the competition rules, finances, human resources, and time required to complete a race car in one year. The design includes the implementation of existing components: battery cells, controllers, electric motors, drivetrains, and tire data for an optimized race car. Also, several circuits were designed and built to meet the rules, including the shutdown, precharge, discharge, brake system plausibility, tractive system active light, and an electric vehicle control unit. The car's performance was modeled with calculations and OptimumLap simulation software, then track tested for actual data. Performance data such as torque, power, and temperatures were logged, and the Formula SAE events were tested. The data were compared to the simulations and records from past competitions, and the car was 21% to 30% behind the best times. The motor generated 410 Nm of peak torque, as expected, but the maximum power was 51 kW, 15% less than the calculated 60 kW. Compared to the best times of past competitions, the car completed Skid-pad in 6.85 seconds (21% slower), and Acceleration in 5.65 seconds (25% slower). The first generation car was tested for range, and raced 31.4 km on a cold, wet track, so tire forces were decreased 6% to 69% from a dry track. During the 22 km. Endurance test with the second generation car, there were problems with imbalanced cell voltages, limiting the test to 4.9 km. Later, there was a catastrophic drivetrain failure, and Endurance testing on a dry track was not completed. In dynamic event simulations, a lighter, axial flux permanent magnet synchronous motor with a decreased counter EMF yielded improved times. Reconfiguring the battery pack from 200 V[subscript DC] 300 V[subscript DC] would provide 50% more peak power. Further testing is required to determine the actual average power use and making design decisions with an improved battery pack.

Download or read book Real Time Systems Design and Analysis written by Phillip A. Laplante and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IEEE Press is pleased to bring you this Second Edition of Phillip A. Laplante's best-selling and widely-acclaimed practical guide to building real-time systems. This book is essential for improved system designs, faster computation, better insights, and ultimate cost savings. Unlike any other book in the field, REAL-TIME SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS provides a holistic, systems-based approach that is devised to help engineers write problem-solving software. Laplante's no-nonsense guide to real-time system design features practical coverage of: Related technologies and their histories Time-saving tips * Hands-on instructions Pascal code Insights into decreasing ramp-up times and more!"

Download or read book Systems Design and Engineering written by G. Maarten Bonnema and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems Engineering is gaining importance in the high-tech industry with systems like digital single-lens reflex cameras, medical imaging scanners, and industrial production systems. Such systems require new methods that can handle uncertainty in the early phases of development, that systems engineering can provide. This book offers a toolbox approach by presenting the tools and illustrating their application with examples. This results in an emphasis on the design of systems, more than on analysis and classical systems engineering. The book is useful for those who need an introduction to system design and engineering, and those who work with system engineers, designers and architects.

Download or read book Vehicle Propulsion Systems written by Lino Guzzella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this text have written a comprehensive introduction to the modeling and optimization problems encountered when designing new propulsion systems for passenger cars. It is intended for persons interested in the analysis and optimization of vehicle propulsion systems. Its focus is on the control-oriented mathematical description of the physical processes and on the model-based optimization of the system structure and of the supervisory control algorithms.

Download or read book Advanced Technologies for Solar Photovoltaics Energy Systems written by Saad Motahhir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed description, analysis, comparison of the latest research and developments in photovoltaic energy. Discussing everything from semiconductors to system integration, and applying various advanced technologies to stand alone and electric utility interfaced in normal and abnormal operating conditions of PV systems, this book provides a thorough introduction to the topic. This book brings together research from around the world, covering the use of technologies such as embedded systems, the Internet of things and blockchain technologies for PV systems for different applications including controllers, solar trackers and cooling systems. The book is of interest to electronic and mechanical engineers, researchers and students in the field of photovoltaics.

Download or read book The International Space Station written by Robert C. Dempsey and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the operations of the International Space Station from the perspective of the Houston flight control team, under the leadership of NASA's flight directors, who authored the book. The book provides insight into the vast amount of time and energy that these teams devote to the development, planning and integration of a mission before it is executed. The passion and attention to detail of the flight control team members, who are always ready to step up when things do not go well, is a hallmark of NASA human spaceflight operations. With tremendous support from the ISS program office and engineering community, the flight control team has made the International Space Station and the programs before it a success.