Design and Implementation of the Software and Hardware System for a Formula SAE Electric Vehicle

This paper presents a complete design and implementation of the software and hardware system for a Formula Society of Automatic Engineers (FSAE) electric vehicle. This design followed the guidelines published by the FSAE formula hybrid electric vehicle rules. A model view controller based software architecture was developed to interact with all necessary hardware during the steady state and dynamic conditions. The vehicle hardware system includes a main processing unit “main brain,” tractive system control board, dashboard, shutdown circuit, and related safety features. A combination of laboratory tests and field tests were performed to validate the software and hardware system.

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