URE16

Endeavour

Achievements

FS Spain 2022

Overall 6/9 - Parc Motor Circuit Barcelona

- 1st place Cost & Manufacturing

- 3rd place Autocross

- 3rd place Trackdrive

The URE16 was the first car URE built using the 'flip of a switch' driverless and electric concept. It featured, among other improvements, a brand-new 600V powertrain, a newly designed monocoque and major improvements to the driverless software and hardware.

Technical Specifications

General

Weight

Length

Width

Height

0-100 time

Aerodynamics

Downforce

Dragforce

Drag Reduction

Chassis

Two-piece, top and bottom half, CFRP Sandwich Structure with aluminium honeycomb core

In-house laminated using pre-impregnated carbon fibers

Electronics

14-way digital fusebox, settable via CAN

Live Telemetry via WiFi

Smart Display in steering wheel

Custom live telemetry dashboard

Control Software

Electronic velocity vectoring differential

State of charge estimation

Power limit controller

Wheel speed controller

DRS controller

Endurance controller

62kg at 60km/h

23kg at 60km/h

System on rear wing

225kg

2988mm

1425mm

1175mm

2.1s

4x Custom URE/Fisher

2x Lenze DCU 60/60

140kW/80kW (competition limited)

4 x 410Nm

6.6kWh

14.06:1 compounded planetary gears set

Powertrain

Motor

Motor controller

Max power

Max torque

Battery capacity

Final drive

Suspension

Front

Rear

ARS

Dampers

Tires

Trackwidth

Wheelbase

Braking

Autonomous Systems

Driverless ECU

LiDAR Sensor

Camera Sensor

Cone detection

Localisation & mapping

Path planning

Path tracking

Steering control

Velocity control

Direct acting multilink suspension

Multilink suspension

Rear anti-roll bar with flex blades

KW 3-way adjustable FS dampers

205/50R10 custom Vredestein R&D

1220/1220mm (F/R)

1535mm

Custom brake discs

NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 Autochauffeur

Ouster OS1-32

Sekonix NA6062

Custom algorithms for localization

& color matching

FastSLAM 2.0

Cubic spline, custom modes per event

Control based on bicycle model

Dual-loop on position and velocity level

PID and feedforward

Team Members

Management

Dion Engels - Chief Executive Officer Pascal Ruwen - Chief Mechanical and Drivetrain Aris van Ieperen - Chief Electronics, Software and Powertrain Rense Nijenkamp - Chief Autonomous Systems and Control Marco Jonkers - Chief Vehicle Dynamics and Testing
Aerodynamics

Bram Backhuijs Dennis De Niel Tom Oosterholt Ralf Reinartz Max van IJsseldijk
Autonomous Systems

Rody Aerts Guus Bauwens Dennis van den Brandt Guus Engels Dennis Gubbels Jesse Koenders Richard Nusselder Tijs van der Smagt Alex Ummelen Teun Urselmann Niels Vervaet
Business

Danny Scheffer Bram Smolenaars
Chassis

Wouter Doelman Sieuwe Elferink Lars Leemans
Control

Sanjay Dinker Vignesh Gowrisankar Tom Heinen Nino Messaoudi Yash Sinha Thom Wijshoff
Cost

Max van Riel Danny Scheffer
Electronics & Software

Dennis van den Brandt Josh Claessen Raymond de Groot Tymek Feldman Niek Kesteloo Shane Pereira Gina Sprenger Thibeau Teuwen Jeroen Verbong
Operations & PR

Lars Hak Carla Meijer Bram Smolenaars Bart Verrijt
Powertrain

Wouter Andriesse Matthis de Lange Arvind Desikan Joep Jacobs David Matos Len Schoemakers
Testing

Rohan Jikar
Vehicle Dynamics

Elise Levert Lars Mulder Wenger Pwa
Advisory Alumni

Willian Bens Bjork van der Donk Lars Hermans Lennard Katan Sjoerd Knippenberg Rob Neggers Zjelko Parfant Teun Pijs
Advisory Commission

dr. ir. Bas Vermulst ir. Robbin van Hoek
Advisory Board

dr. ir. Igo Besselink dr. ir. Joris Remmers ir. Korneel Wijnands ir. Erwin Dekkers

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