Build a single-seat formula car
Competition Introduction with related photos:
Students build a single seat formula racecar with which they can compete against teams from all over the world. The competition is not won solely by the team with the fastest car, but rather by the team with the best overall package of construction, performance, and financial and sales planning. Formula Student challenges the team members to go the extra step in their education by incorporating into it intensive experience in building and manufacturing as well as considering the economic aspects of the automotive industry. Teams take on the assumption that they are a manufacturer developing a prototype to be evaluated for production. The target audience is the non-professional Weekend-Racer. The racecar must show very good driving characteristics such as acceleration, braking and handling. It should be offered at a very reasonable cost and be reliable and dependable. Additionally, the car's market value increases through other factors such as aesthetics, comfort and the use of readily available, standard purchase components. The challenge the teams face is to compose a complete package consisting of a well constructed racecar and a sales plan that best matches these given criteria. The decision is made by a jury of experts from the motorsport, automotive and supplier industries. The jury will judge every team's car and sales plan based on construction, cost planning and sales presentation. The rest of the judging will be done out on the track, where the students demonstrate in a number of performance tests how well their self-built racecars fare in their true environment.
BENEFITS：
Orion Racing India is India's best Formula Student team. We have been participating in Formula Student Germany for past 8 years and are the only Indian to complete all events at the competition. We are consecutive winners of Formula Student India 2015 and Formula Student India 2016. Supported by India's National Carrier Air India and leading banking firm HDFC. These all brands add leverage to our team's image thus to other supporting brands too.can gain major coverage in various events arranged by and for these major brands.
Events attended: Formula Student India 2016 - Overall winners ( 45 teams and 2000+ students on competition venue)
Display of our prototype car at 3 Hindustan Petroleum fuel stations in Mumbai. Team also participated in Maker Mela (the premier event for grassroots Indian innovation) - Footfall - 6000+ people.
Autocar Performance Show 2014 - Footfall 80,000+ people.
Electronic systems embedded in the car provide important contribution from the vehicle control and data acquisition system. Development of an entire wiring setup for the engine and sensor hub for in depth DAQ forms the major scope of the electronics department.
Project Details
Next year we are planning to design and get manufactured few PCB's for the following purpose.
1.Power Distribution Module(PDM)
PDM is with multiple outputs designed to transfer electric current from the battery to the delivery unit. It consists of various electrical and electronic systems such as the battery, mosfet's, fuse box and various supporting components. This power is later transmitted to various electric and electronic devices such Starter Motor ,Fuel Pump, Ignition Module and Cooling Fan.
2. Sensor Hub.
A printed circuit board based sensor hub is developed so that the process of interfacing various sensors to the ECU becomes easy. ECU has 8 analog voltage channel inputs, 6 analog temperature inputs and four digital inputs which are used extensively for interfacing sensors such as shock travel sensor, steering angle, throttle position sensor, gear position sensor, fluid pressure sensors and accelerometer on the analog voltage channel; engine temperature and exhaust gas temperature sensors in analog temperature channel and wheel speed sensors in digital channel.All these sensors can be selectively interfaced with the ECU as and when needed. The sensor hub is made in a panel form so that the connectors can be installed easily and are easy to recognize
3.Electronic Gear Shifting and Gear Position System(GPS)
Testing of electronic gear shifting and GPS is done and its actuation is controlled by a programmed controller.As manual shifting takes around 1 second to change gear by using electronic gear shifting it takes around 300 milliseconds.
4.battery level indicator.
It helps us knowing the voltage level of battery which is very important during dynamics, if battery voltage falls below 12.5 Volts it won't be able to transmit the required amount of current to stater motor and engine won't start.
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