Operations

• Any tire updates?

• Old president of UT SVT who wants to come visit. Are they goated? Feather guy

Chief Engineer

• Chief Engineer Feedback Form

  • https://forms.gle/WxBK1oPsaaH5T1fQ7

  • I will check this on a weekly basis. It is anonymous, so please fill out if you have anything you want to tell me, especially if it is criticism

• Projects I am working on this week

  • Creating dynamics reference sketch with displacements

  • Modeling Instron testing fixtures for composites

• Cheefy Help Zone

  • Are there any projects y’all would like my help on

• Areas of Interest

  • Array x Aeroshell layout discussion progress?

Controls:

Updates

• Motor Controller STILL isn’t working (no more CAN Issues tho)

  • Parthiv can say more abt this

  • Don’t think this is from Controls side, need to verify.

• Three more members know how to use profinity/set up + debug

• Maddie and Krish - Layout in progress

• Lucy - Lighting schematic draft reviewed

• Oscar - Leader Dash, SendTriitum

• Mika - Addressing Parthiv’s ideas on dashboard, addressing pedals board accel sensor

Week Plan

• meeting with Eliana Thursday to look at brakeline for board

• I intend to stay on campus throughout break to catch up on whatever work is behind (after 5 PM everyday): pedals board, MC fix if possible, ordering, finalizing with dash etc.

Upcoming Deadlines

Pedal needs to have first draft completed EOW.

BPS:

Updates

•  Boards are developing

• Michael tested his watchdog on hardware but there’s some weird stuff going on, will be starting RTOS stuff soon

• Phoenix is testing her RTOS stuff on a Nucleo now

• Aneri got SPI running on Nucleo and is working on it over break

• Clark is pretty close to starting layout and I think he can get it done pretty quickly

• Abby is also pretty close to starting but she needs to address comments on the schematic

• Progress on Amperes board is kinda slow, if it conitnues to be slow I’ll starting adding more help

Week Plan

Upcoming Deadlines:

• 11/09/26 - BPS Software Architecture

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Power Generation:

Updates

• Accepted quote for MPPT

• Tanya and Tong about to send review request

  • Constant current lighting driver schematics

  • Temperature sensor schematics

• Erika started ADC breakout boards layout

Week Plan

Upcoming Deadlines

• 12/16/2024 - Order boards

• 01/19/2024 - Array x Mechanical PDR

Data Acquisition:

Updates

• Weather + Array + Battery + Terrain all integrated. Working on simulating dynamics.

• RF Receiver schematic complete. Working on layout

• IMU/RPM board schematic complete. Working on layout.

Week Plan

• Give thanks to the people that have given us so much

Upcoming Deadlines

Nov 23, 2024 - RF Board Layout

Nov 23, 2024 - IMU/RPM Board Layout

Power Systems:

Updates

• Power board layout complete. Waiting on review. Reviews will be addresed prior to thanksgiving break and ordered by the same deadline.

• Contactor driver and dataacq env board ordered.

• eFuse testboard ready for review. Will be ordered alongside power board

• Good progress on env board software (reading humidity and temp values on terminal).

• Active precharge board undergoing a slight change (changing power delivery from LDO to buck). Finished and awaiting review.

• Power monitoring board sch reviewed. Layout will start soon.

• Encountered some issues when trying to spotweld on sigmaclad. Reached out to Kevin Yu (electric) with observations and questions. Havent recieved a response just yet.

Week Plan

• Continue battery manufacturing (spotwelding) testing

• review active precharge and eFuse testboard.

• We also try out hand at the challenges placed before us. But we do it better.

Upcoming Deadlines

Electromechanical:

Updates

• Started on Eplan

• spot welding problems, going up sometime this week to hopefully get test module built

• battery box locks finished with fea completed as well

Week Plan

design review for final cooling parts before we come back

complete mppt and motor controller cooling

Upcoming Deadlines

Body:

Updates

• Frame 1st iteration had to be redone

• Jig Design plan and Welding order started

• Pedal Jig used, pedal ratio was tested and confirmed for daybreak pedal box redesign

• Steering Wheel layup setup tested, CFC viable for steering wheel construction, needs some refinement

Week Plan

• Go over welding theory to help with jigging/welding plan

• Re-finish 1st frame iteration, start ansys sims

• Decide pedal box placement/bounding box

• Continue work on Daybreak pedal box redesign

Upcoming Deadlines

Dynamics:

Updates

• General:

  • Manufactured inserts for composite testing

• Unsprung:

  • Decided brakes

  • CAD for rear a-arm structure

  • Sohan began learning manufacturing with me and Gerard

• Suspension:

  • Talked with fergo to better understand bounding boxes and HDPTS need to be changed

  • All members got Ansys installed

  • Carter is doing finding the loads related to bell cranks

  • Oliver and La’akea began learning manufacturing with me and Gerard

• Steering:

  • Found lower steering rack geometry

Week Plan

• Unsprung:

  • More mockup designs for both front and rear

  • Break button dimensions and forces on the rotor when we lock up

• Suspension:

  • First iteration rear reference sketch

  • Load conditions for suspension focusing on bell cranks

  • Oliver and La’akea testing pushrods

  • Test with dummy suspension

• Steering:

  • Reviewing lower steering rack geometry

  • Members work on designs for upper steering, figuring out how gearbox will work

Upcoming Deadlines

Aeroshell:

Updates

• Aerodynamics

  • Finished up designs for each members respecitve parts

  • Matthew sims lecture pt 2

    • getting through sims for most parts

• Composites

  • Battery box layup, metal sheet, resin calculator sheet, test fixture for shear test designed and now its bad

  • Niloo found a company that can may be able to make us a foam mold for bottom shell for mold release testing (working on getting a quote rn)

Week Plan

• Aerodynamics

  • Prep sims by meeting, throw em in TACC during meeting

  • hopefully theyve picked what design they want to put on the final car by the end of break

• Composites

  • advait going to live at pickle over thanksgiving break, finish daybreak prep and battery box layup

  • jaden going to recad test fixture

  • first composite insert bonding test on thursday

  • Do post processing for first fcf test, figure out all changes that need to be made to fix it/ what vars we want to mess around with

Upcoming Deadlines