{"id":1597,"date":"2018-07-24T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:25:27","slug":"speedgoat-mathworks-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/student-lounge\/2018\/07\/24\/speedgoat-mathworks-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedgoat and MathWorks Jointly Supporting Automotive Student Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Unique Support Package<\/h1>\n

Speedgoat and MathWorks are offering a unique support package<\/strong> to select Formula Student teams.
\nApply now<\/strong>:\u00a0speedgoat.com\/company\/formula-student-sponsoring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Some Background<\/h1>\n

Automotive student racing teams are typically brilliant when it comes to modeling new ideas and advanced concepts. An area where I have seen teams performing less effective was deploying algorithms onto their microcontrollers in the racecar and testing them. I have seen brilliant ideas gradually dying before they can be succesful in a race situation. I observed various reasons\u00a0of which I mention two here. #1 I saw ‘jungles’ of software tools and hardware components where nobody considered upfront how this all could work together. #2 Another example, and this may sound odd, sometimes\u00a0it boiled down to a communication challenge between team members with different backgrounds, e.g. a vehicle dynamicist and someone in charge of microcontrollers.<\/p>\n

To help and to understand those challenges a bit better, we set up a pilot project for the\u00a02016\/2017 Formula Student season with a handful of teams. We asked teams we know well about their ideas for software design and hardware selection and offered our support along the way. By doing so, we learned a great deal about workflows, their struggles and the tedious work on the details. One day, Greenteam from Stuttgart University<\/a> called me with an interesting question: “We want to use a device called Speedgoat Baseline<\/a> as main vehicle controls unit – what are your thoughts?”<\/p>\n

The following story can be made short. Greenteam lead the way, Speedgoat and MathWorks helped when needed and Greenteam had their most succesful season ever, see here their user story<\/a>.\u00a0 Finally, the three partners kept working jointly during the 2017\/2018 season to eliminate all the tiny little problems in the workflow, around various I\/Os and protocols. So today, Speedgoat and MathWorks are proud to extend the offer to the entire community.<\/p>\n

Your Action Items<\/h1>\n

These are actually straightforward:<\/p>\n