The two students are part of the EUSS MotorSport team, made up of more than fifty students from the university's various engineering disciplines. The team was founded in 2017 with the goal of working together to build a single-seater race car, which, starting this 2022-2023 academic year, is powered by electricity.
Creating a customized system to collect and transmit vehicle data:
Student Marc Gera has created a control unit and a data logger that collects all the information from the EM-04 electric vehicle, which they are designing together with the MotorSport team. "Since joining the team, I'd wanted to create my own system to collect data from the car's sensors," explains Gera. "Since this season, the decision was made to convert the combustion engine vehicle to electric, the existing system became obsolete. It was the perfect opportunity, and it became my final year project." The project will serve as a basis for future team designs. “It’s a highly innovative project, a customized solution for the EM-04 single-seater that provides very useful functionality that will last for many years,” he adds.
One of the advantages of the new design is that important data can be viewed in real time, both in the driver’s cockpit and on the trackside engineers’ computers via telemetry.
It is precisely in this area that the contribution of student Víctor Ortega has come into play. He designed this telemetry system to transmit data via radio and make it usable. “A system was needed to capture all the data from the sensors and transmit the information to the technical team through a PC application,” Ortega explains. This is an uncommon system on the market and can be adapted to any vehicle that integrates CAN bus communication, which could prove useful for other projects similar to the EM-04.
The two projects have had to coordinate to achieve the same common goal, benefiting the EUSS MotorSport team, which this season is presenting its first electrically powered race car. “The experience has been very demanding; we’ve had to juggle studies, work placements, and other team projects,” Gera points out, “but at the same time, it has been very enriching.” “The result makes us very proud of our work,” concludes Víctor Ortega.
About EUSS:
With an educational tradition dating back to the late 19th century, the Salesian University School of Sarrià (EUSS) is a higher education institution whose mission is the comprehensive training and development of future engineers and industrial managers. It places special emphasis on the practical aspects of their studies and on career placement, while also promoting active participation and an entrepreneurial spirit.
EUSS has launched the Engineering By Doing program, a training initiative structured around the development of students' professional skills. This program is the result of a project based on consultation with the socio-economic environment (businesses, university representatives, and social stakeholders).
