Project information
- Project date: May 2023
- Project GitHub: Click Here to View
Vehicle Surface Air Pressure Sensors
This project was done for the University of Pittsburgh FSAE Team during my time as the Lead Performance and Data Aquisition Engineer. The goal of the project was to be able to measure the air pressure on the surface of our wings so we can then use the data collected from on track testing to validate our aerodynamic simulations. This would also enable us as a team to be able to build aerodynamic maps and further improve our aerodynamic simulations for the future.
The project used Bosch BMP 581 pressure sensors which communicated over SPI to custom PCB we made that would format the data and pack it into a CAN message that was then sent over the CAN Bus. We then used MoTeC M1 Build to write custom firmware for the MoTeC M150 ECU to read and log these CAN messages so we could analyse the data later on.