Last week, the FSAE Electric Racecar team was able to finish the design of our suspension. We decided to try and optimize our suspension by changing the position and lengths of our control arms. By doing this, we improve the way that our car handles. This week, Daniel Yee will be describing the pedalbox and how he designed it. One …
This past week at UAV Forge saw some significant progress in the use of the Sig-T test plane. At Black Star Canyon, the team tested the Sig-T with a 33W battery and a dummy payload. This was to test the safety and viability of mounting the avionics components on the Sig-T. It was discovered that while the plane could take …
While preparing our PDR, we had to finalize all components of our CanSat’s mechanical design. This led to multiple changes as we made sure all designs were ready to manufacture. To meet our weight requirement of 500g, we switched structural components from aluminum to carbon fiber. These materials have comparable strength, but carbon fiber is about 40% lighter. We plan …
The CanSat competition requires our probe to have multiple sensors attached to it. Below is an overview of our Sensor Subsystem. The acceleration sensor to measure the probe’s acceleration. We chose our sensor because of its efficient range for with its relatively low cost. The air pressure and temperature sensor to measure both the probe’s air pressure and temperature. For …
Hello everyone, The solar tracking team has continued to work on building the prototype so that we can conduct tests with the full sized 100W solar panels by the end of week 7. At the same time, we have conducted tests with the 100W solar panel to see the power loss from the panel being away from the sun at …
Hi everyone, Last week, our team was able to construct and complete a proof of concept in order to gauge the feasibility of our concept in the real world environment. As seen in the photo, the motor is connected to the spool via a screw set, and we were able to successfully spin the spool no problem. The motor is …
This week, the FSAE Electric Racecar’s batteries subteam finished designing the battery box. Designing the battery box was a major challenge because of the rules imposed by the Formula SAE Electric competition. For example, the rules require that the battery box be able to withstand at least 20g acceleration in any direction, be removed from the racecar to be charged, …
Hello everyone, the past two weeks our team was busying with the design analysis, manufacturing methods, and the development of the tilting mechanism. From what I have mentioned in last blog, our team has sized the lifting fan and chose the motor attachment. After sizing the lifting fan, we started with the center of gravity calculation for both cruise and …
Hello everyone, The solar tracking team has been continuously working on building our final prototype frame. The picture attached shows the T-bracket that will hold our solar panel. We have been also refining our design for rotating the azimuth angle so that there will be less components with better efficiency. For example, instead of acetal bearings, we discovered lazy susan …
Near the end of this past week, another opportunity for a flight test appeared. While there was not enough time to safely attach the avionics such as the camera or PixHawk 2, the prototype plane will be flying with a dummy payload to test and ensure the prototype’s ability to fly with the weight of the avionics mounted. As this …
