Apologies for the delay, it's been one hell of a month. The original post was just screenshots as I had intended to write about it later, plus do up a report also, so the initial posts were just to 'park' this slot.
The test at Sepang was an eye opener which raised other thoughts about this whole project and the scope and direction to where all these are heading to. It's still beyond myself for now, so I shall pen it when I've got it all sorted out.
To sum it up, the test car was a Honda Civic Type R (FD2R), pretty much stock with normal tyres.
Only managed to take a couple of pictures:
Not a very happening atmosphere as it was pretty much an 'own time, own target' day. Quite a few exotic cars including Lotus, Porsche, BMW, Lamborghini, Ferrari, an Ariel Atom... and the usual Civics, Rex and Evos.
This is the GPS antenna placed on the roof of the car. It's magnetically mounted with a plastic-cover for the base so it does not scratch or damage the painted surface. The wire is run through the seal of the door, at the corner which has plenty of excess rubber and doesn't damage the seal or the wire.
This is the basic unit - the data logger with built in gyroscope and acceleromters. GPS data is logged at a post processed frequency of 20Hz (normal loggers usually do 5Hz for GPS), with speed having additional information from accelerometers. Other inputs are logged up to 100Hz. The mounting strategy of the logger could be improved for future runs as later it was discovered that the unit was mounted slightly tilted which affected the readings.
A total of 3 runs were made, with about 4 laps each. Unfortunately one of the runs was compromised, so there was only 2 runs worth of data.
Other points to note would be made out on future posts.
The test at Sepang was an eye opener which raised other thoughts about this whole project and the scope and direction to where all these are heading to. It's still beyond myself for now, so I shall pen it when I've got it all sorted out.
To sum it up, the test car was a Honda Civic Type R (FD2R), pretty much stock with normal tyres.
Only managed to take a couple of pictures:
Not a very happening atmosphere as it was pretty much an 'own time, own target' day. Quite a few exotic cars including Lotus, Porsche, BMW, Lamborghini, Ferrari, an Ariel Atom... and the usual Civics, Rex and Evos.
This is the GPS antenna placed on the roof of the car. It's magnetically mounted with a plastic-cover for the base so it does not scratch or damage the painted surface. The wire is run through the seal of the door, at the corner which has plenty of excess rubber and doesn't damage the seal or the wire.
This is the basic unit - the data logger with built in gyroscope and acceleromters. GPS data is logged at a post processed frequency of 20Hz (normal loggers usually do 5Hz for GPS), with speed having additional information from accelerometers. Other inputs are logged up to 100Hz. The mounting strategy of the logger could be improved for future runs as later it was discovered that the unit was mounted slightly tilted which affected the readings.
A total of 3 runs were made, with about 4 laps each. Unfortunately one of the runs was compromised, so there was only 2 runs worth of data.
Other points to note would be made out on future posts.
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