AXLR8R Formula Racing
Embedded Design Engineering
1. Role & Engineering Overview
As an Embedded Design Engineer for the AXLR8R Formula Racing team, I was responsible for designing and testing the vital electronic hardware of the Electric Control Units (ECUs) functioning across the vehicle. The core architecture relied fundamentally on robust and instantaneous intra-vehicle communications.
ECU Hardware Architecture
Designed electronic hardware of Electric Control Units based on STM32F0 and STM32F4 microcontrollers designated for intra-vehicle communication, managing, and manipulating received data from the diverse sensors equipped on the vehicle.
CAN Bus Network Implementation
Successfully implemented a highly robust three-node CAN (Controller Area Network) communication protocol acting as the backbone interface strictly between the distributed STM32F4 based ECUs.
Embedded Software Dev
Developed comprehensive STM32F4 ECUs code using C targeting high-fidelity data retrieval from sensors running on UART, SPI, and I2C. This supported active data checks, real-time message manipulation, continuous intra-ECU signaling, and highly time-critical decision execution layers based on received inputs.
Validation & Testing
Built and systematically deployed stringent validation test plans and hardware-in-the-loop test scenarios to consistently prove the operational correctness of all custom designed systems prior to track engagement.
2. Hardware Design Showcase
Below is a visual representation of the highly-dense, custom-routed PCB layouts executing the firmware required to aggregate and analyze real-time motorsport sensor telemetry.
Front Board 20.0 Layout
Rear Board 20.0 Routing Layer
