An improved telemetry system for monitoring an off-road racecar

Kohl Anderson, Kyle Boyer, Laura Brubaker, Daniel Fuehrer, Richard Herriman, Paul Houston, Sean Ruckle, Michael Marcellin

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Abstract

The University of Arizona Baja Racing Team competes annually in a grueling off-road racing competition designed to test the durability of each team’s vehicle. For the last several years, we have been developing a custom telemetry system to monitor and analyze the performance of the vehicle in order to provide live diagnostics to the pit crew and driver, as well as to inform future designs. This year, we have redesigned the core of the system to be more modular and use more COTS parts in order to allow easier upgrade and repair, and have upgraded many existing sensors, added sensors to monitor driver vitals, improved the driver’s display, and embedded USB hubs in our power distribution boards to allow programming of all microcontrollers on the vehicle over a single USB interface. These changes will make future development easier and will produce far more data than we have had in previous generations.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalProceedings of the International Telemetering Conference
Volume2018-November
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event54th Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition: Reliable and Secure Data, Links and Networks, ITC 2018 - Glendale, United States
Duration: Nov 5 2018Nov 8 2018

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing

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