MUR Motorsports Newsletter - May 2020

May has brought about a flurry of mixed emotions for the team.
FSAE-A is cancelled, but that doesn’t mean MUR stops! We have a lot of learning to do and valuable data to gather to help future teams make better race cars. We're in the process of working out plans for the rest of the year but expect to see some wacky designs and have a whole lot of fun with us with the competition pressure being lifted. Set your sights on January for FS Sydney, and we’ll find other opportunities to go racing too. Well done to all teams on your EDR presentations, some fantastic ideas presented, and a lot of valuable feedback received.

Mechanical Updates

Mech teams have been preparing for EDRs, marking the end of design reviews and the lock down of most system designs. Valuable feedback from alumni helps us refine designs before we enter the manufacturing period. Aero have been working on an adjusted timeline (given the circumstances) and therefore won’t lock down their system until a little later.

Electrical Updates

The elec team had a successful EDR earlier in the month, with a lot of positive feedback and constructive discussion. We were able to generate an accurate torque map and develop an action plan to combat LHS inverter instability. We were also able to identify and minimise the overcurrent/overheating issues in the BSPD along with the sizing of appropriate sensors for safety critical signals. Well done team!

Driverless Updates

The team continues to work on learning and implementing their subsystems in test setups or simulations. The capstone project for the driverless team is currently working on the final report/report for faculty on the feasibility and safety of the driverless vehicle program, due at the end of this reporting period. 
Junior projects on continuous integration server, human collision avoidance and 3D printed car underway.

Junior Updates

All our juniors have been developing the various concepts & ideas based around their projects. Engulfing themselves with research & past solutions to their junior projects, to create a better or more improved solution.
Some cool junior progress includes the work of our simulator team, working with our livery engineer, to embed the MUR19E into Assetto Corsa to learn the competition track for our drivers. Allowing for a more realistic nature of our simulator to run our FSAE car.
A few of our juniors have presented their conceptual ideas to fellow MUR seniors, to get some feedback and critiques on design aspects or practicality of their concept.
With those few projects moving onto the design phase of their work. Utilising the team’s Fusion 360 portal, to create designs & have them stored for future teams to look at their ideas.