Agenda:
- Clarke: Where are we at?
- What do we have:
- A model that takes car paramaters and route elevation and outputs a velocity profile that is "optimized"
- A model that calculates the energy requirement of a given route (feeds into above model)
- A model that calculates our solar cell efficiency given their temperature
- A model that calculates the expected solar energy of a flat plate
- What are we working on:
- Modeling the ASC route (Connor)
- Motor torque requirements and modeling incorporating that torque (Connor + Clarke)
- Low power losses (Umar)
- Noise reduction in the outputted velocity (Chris)
- SOC modelling for XIV (Micah)
- Major issues:
- Data certainty (getting good + accurate CdA & Crrs)
- Model Usability (currently only gives us a graph that doesn't mean much to drivers)
- Lack of documentation
- Firmware and Telemetry Integration
- Task definition (tasks are too large and need to be split up + have more frequent meeting to check progress)
- Lack of testing requirements and definitions
- Model + algorithm efficiency
- Things that can be worked on now:
- Writing good documentation + tests
- Documentation
- Onboarding
- Waterloo leadership thoughts
- Future?
- Full Model Integration (use solar + battery level + dynamics system to optimize)
- Create usable model for anyone on the team
- Lower barrier to entry for strategy
- Build Telemetry interface
- Dreams
- Make model completely hands off (load up on server, make use of weather APIs, available on web server)
- Set up farm for model building (run AWS server for optimization calculations)
- Firmware level documentation
- What do we have: