ECE443-Sp26: SAE Inertial Measurement Unit

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This project aims to design, fabricate, and test Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) nodes distributed on all four control arms of a racing vehicle to capture high resolution suspension dynamics data. The system will consist of four CAN (controller area network) nodes (4 systems), each node having unique sensor data with identifiers for CAN communication. We will be utilizing the ICM-40609-D IMU sensor to record acceleration and gyroscopic data in 3-axis. An STM32L431RCT6 micro controller has been implemented which utilizes the internal CAN controller, and MCP2562 CAN transceiver to convert I2C sensor data from the ICM-40609-D IMU sensor into CAN-formatted communication for the vehicle's MoTeC data logger ensuring data can be plotted and analyzed by the racing team. Who will utilize it to further development of the vehicle and improve its performance. The purpose of using CAN as our communication protocol is to ensure the robustness of our data transmission, preventing excessive data loss or corruption which was achieved. Future improvements can be made in the power efficiency and component protection departments.

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