Simulador de tempo de volta: uma ferramenta simplificada, rápida e confiável para equipes de fórmula SAE

Abstract

The projects of graduation have, in most of them, a lot of difficulties that are overcome every day by the students who accept to entering in. Among all of these difficulties, the lack of financial resources and worst time to test and validate the prototypes. This work would like to show some scientific tool to grow up the level of formula SAE teams without any cost. A mathematical model will be prepared with physical parameters and based on project data from each team, it will be possible to simulate the lap time of the car on different tracks. With this tool proposed in this work, the time of these tests Will be reduced to simple simulations with different configurations of some parameters of the car. Not only to help some Formula SAE teams; the focus is to help little Racing teams that does not have in their days softwares to lap time simulation. The result Will show a graph of the car's speed at each point on the track and will indicate the total lap time. Validation will be done by comparing real data from formula-type cars riding on the same circuit as the proposed simulation. The simplified way to introduce the parameters and fast time to have the conclusion are the biggest benefits of this tool.