2024-11-12 Leads Meeting

Operations

• Electrify was successful

  • thank you to everyone who helped out

• Austin Auto Festival this weekend so just more outreach this weekend

Chief Engineer

Controls:

Updates

• Motor Controller isn’t working (CAN Issues)

• Ongoing Pedals work

• First draft lighting board schematic done

• Good progress on rear camera

• Leader layout has begun

Week Plan

• meeting with Eliana tomorrow to finish schematic

• Pickle tonight to fix MC

Upcoming Deadlines

• Nov 13, 2024 first draft pedal schematic

• Nov 16, 2024 reviewed pedals schematic

• Nov 16, 2024 backup camera feasibility

• Nov 16, 2024 documentation on MC parameters, purchase MC if issues cannot be resolved

BPS:

Updates

Week Plan

Upcoming Deadlines

Power Generation:

Updates

• MPPT ADC breakout board review

• Starting MPPT fw makefiles

• Array layout w/ Jason

• Temp and Irradiance sense board schematic start

• constant current driver re make schematic

• PV capture database implementation complete; continuing database manager

• training loop for model works :DD

Week Plan

• finish up array layout w/ jason & send it to d2

Upcoming Deadlines

Data Acquisition:

Updates

• Array and battery sim are hard

• Leaderboard progress continues

Week Plan

•  We try our hand at the challenges placed before us

Upcoming Deadlines

Nov 16, 2024 - RF Receiver Schematic

Nov 16, 2024 - IMU/RPM board proposal

Power Systems:

Updates

• Power board layout 95% complete. Will get done very soon.

• Board orders will go out very soon (eFuse test board, contactor driver, dataacq env board, active precharge (maybe))

Week Plan

• Battery manufacturing (spotwelding) will begin next workday

• Continue board development

Upcoming Deadlines

Electromechanical:

Updates

• critical hardware back in car and harnessed

• mock cooling intake done to send to regs

• ready to manufacture mock modules

• start characterization of a few cells with ps

Week Plan

• have all battery box panel cutouts finished and dxfs created for waterjet

  • only layups will be a blocker then

Upcoming Deadlines

Body:

Updates

• Frame

  • first frame iteration finished → simming to begin

  • initial composite research finished → sandwich panel design and mount design next

• Ergo

  • drivers sized → driver model can be finalized this week

Week Plan

Frame

• start simulating frame → get initial data for first iteration

• create initial design ideas for frame jig

Ergo

• continue working on steering wheel designs

• finish up daybreak pedal box changes (test pedal jig, finish design)

• start work on next gen seat

Upcoming Deadlines

Dynamics:

Updates

• Unsprung: Unsprung ran sims on axle diameters, tried out SKF Sim Quick Pro for bearing and trailing arm geometry began development

• Suspension: Suspension researched adams kinematics software, Kayla worked on refining her sketch to find non-hdpts defined values, trailing arm geometry began development

• Steering: Steering worked on bump steer research + created a 3D sketch for Ackermann because I had anti for some reason + found the C factor of the old steering rack on the car + found issues with steering placement relative to the bounding box that we have + found a steering geometry that should work for new gen

Week Plan

• Unsprung: 2 upright designs, 2 hub designs for Sami, Sumi, and Sohan. Jonathan works on rear swingarm which shows methods of motor and caliper mounting

• Steering: Research bump steer optimization and have it implemented in CAD by workday

• Suspension: Carter secures adams/dynatune, La’akea sims pushrods, Oliver sims control arms, Manas works with Jonathan on refining trailing arm hdpts

Upcoming Deadlines

Aeroshell:

Updates

• Aerodynamics

  • Members have been taught ANSYS

• Composites

  • Battery box layup, worked on resin infusion research and test fixtures for composite panels

Week Plan

• Aerodynamics

  • Everyone have a sim done of the parts that they have made by next workday

  • Getting into the flow of make variation, sim variation

• Composites

  • Battery box, first frame panel test subject, maybe machining test fixtures (not sure on this yet, depends on materials), design molds for wire cutter

Upcoming Deadlines