What?
In the modern motorsports racing environment, there are many factors that contribute to taking the first-place position. In this style of racing, even though competitors can drive more than fifty full laps around the track taking multiple hours, every second counts. One of the most time-detracting processes in F1 racing is the pitstop. Even though it only lasts a few seconds, racers must slow down, come to a complete stop, and then speed back up again costing them valuable time, speed, fuel, and efficiency. Even the average pit stop can have the effect of moving your position in the race down ten spots or more. It was determined that using a fully automated Pit Stop Robot would be the best solution to increasing the speed of this process. Not only can this make the whole process faster, but it also removes humans from a very dangerous role where many violent injuries can and have occurred. In this paper, it will be found that automating the entire pit stop process is not an easy feat, but unbolting and re-securing the wheels back onto the racecar is a big first step in perfecting the motorsports pit stop.
Why?
Coming Soon...
How?
Coming Soon...
You can visit the github for this project here.