The objective for the 3rd performance test was to show improvement in energy used by the AEV. The energy usage can be found by using the MatLab code created earlier. One way to reduce energy usage is to look at the Arduino program. The coding can be modified for the motors to use less power, less time powered on, etc.

The Arduino code was created for the full track run for the aev. The team was not able to create its own code for the full run but was given a code to view and analyze. The given code was very similar to the code the that team had for the half run as “motorSpeed” was the main command instead of “Celerate”.

This lab was to summarize the steps taken in the performance tests and the division of work between each team member. Unfortunately, the team was not able to do this lab due to the covid-19 pandemic.

This lab will show how the rest of the project will go. A schedule will need to be created to ensure that the team is on task and on pace to finish the project on time.

A program created in Matlab was developed to analyze the performance of each AEV run. The code would analyze energy efficiency by plotting graphs of power supplied vs time. The code starts by taking the collected data from the AEV data recorder and converts the EEPROM data into physical parameters. The data was then used in different equations throughout the code to find kinetic energy, velocity, propulsion efficiency, and total energy. This could be all displayed on graphs that are found throughout the report and poster.