Vehicle Control Unit (VCU)

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Gabe Soares edited this page Sep 13, 2018 · 1 revision

VCU REV0 Project Description

Responsible Engineers

Gabriel Soares & Neeraj Bansal

High Level Project Objective

To bring up Revision 0 of the VCU, to a fully working state with all features tested and verified.

Purpose of Project

The VCU is the main control unit in the electric vehicle, it functioning reliably is vital to vehicle performance.

Deliverables

High level system block diagram
UART and 5V ORing IC soldered and tested
Firmware written to engage UART connection with PC
Current Sense Amplifier IC soldered and tested
Firmware written to acquire current and voltage measurements over I2C
AIR and Inverter driver MOSFETs soldered and tested
DAC IC soldered and tested
Firmware written to drive analog output via SPI
GPIO expander IC soldered and tested
Firmware written to acquire digital inputs via SPI
CAN transceiver ICs soldered and tested
Firmware written to communicate over CAN using transceivers
Main state machine integrated with VCU code stack through freeRTOS
Fully functioning VCU working on go kart
Documentation of features and functionality