H2polito's Telemetry System for Energy-Efficient Vehicles
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For Emanuele and his team H2Polito, a telemetry system is crucial in making sure their Shell Eco-marathon vehicle is energy-efficient.
Emanuele Simeone, Computer Engineering Division Manager for H2Polito from Politecnico Di Torino, Italy, talks about building their own telemetry system for the two cars they have in the competition. He explains how their telemetry system allows them to monitor their vehicles’ speed, energy consumption live location on the track. This also lets the team optimize each car’s performance to ensure energy efficiency.
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Title: Shell Eco-marathon: On-Track EUAF 2023 – H2Polito
Duration: 03:33
Description: H2Polito Computer Engineering Division Manager Emanuele Simone discusses the hardware and software used in their vehicle.
On-Track 2023 – H2Polito transcript
[Background music]
Upbeat futuristic music plays.
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Opens with Emanuele, full frame.
Emanuele: The outside our car is cool, but it’s the technology inside that counts.
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Outside of our car is cool but it’s the technology inside that counts.
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Cuts to vehicle running on track.
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Cuts to team members posing with two different vehicles.
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H2Polito
Politecnico Di Torino
Italy
Emanuele voice-over: We are a team H2Polito, and we come from Politecnico Di Torino in Italy.
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
[Text displays – name strap]
Emanuele Simone
Computer Engineering Division Manager
Emanuele: Shell Eco-marathon is an extremely important competition that allows us as a team to build…
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Cuts to team member rolling vehicle outside garage, followed by shot of urban concept vehicle inside garage.
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Build
Prototype
Urban Concept vehicles
Emanuele voice-over: … a prototype and an urban concept vehicles…
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Cuts to close ups of vehicle before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … and as a students, we think that it's our incredible opportunity…
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Cuts to three-way split-screen of team members talking around vehicle.
Emanuele voice-over: … to show the world what we can achieve.
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Briefly cuts back to Emanuele before transitioning to scrapbook images of a map, followed by cutouts of team members and their vehicles.
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Cuts to team member looking at a computer screen.
Emanuele voice-over: All the hardware and software in the telemetry system, except for the phone…
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Cuts to close up of phone before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuel: … are designed and built by us.
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Designed and built by us
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Cuts to urban concept vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Emanuele.
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Informatics
system
Emanuele: A telemetry system is an informatics system that goes from the hardware to the firmware and the software…
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Cuts to vehicle running on track.
Emanuele voice-over: … that allows us to keep track of the vehicle in real time, and also off-track…
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Keep track of the vehicle in real time
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … and allows us to understand what goes on IN the vehicle, while it's actually running…
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Cuts to three-way split-screen of driver and team members standing around vehicle outside garage.
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … so it can allow us to make a modification to the race strategy…
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Make a modification to the rate strategy
Emanuele: … watching out for the parameters of the ICE engine and the HYDROGEN fuel cell.
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Cuts to ICE engine and exterior shot of the vehicle with surrounding team members. The cuts to vehicle body without wheels sitting on tarmac.
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Parameters we measure with our telemetry system
Emanuele voice-over: The parameters that we measure with our telemetry system are…
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … the vehicle speed…
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Speed
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Cuts to close up of speedometer.
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Revolutions per minute
Emanuele voice-over: … the RPM of the internal combustion engine vehicle…
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … the voltage level of the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle…
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Voltage level.
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Cuts to urban concept vehicle running on track.
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Live location
Emanuele voice-over: … also the live location of the two vehicles that compete on the track…
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: We also mount onboard a barometer that allows us to compute at which height the vehicle is situated depending on its position on the track.
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Height
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Cuts to vehicle running on track.
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Transitions to scrapbook graphic, before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: The telemetry system is built over three main parts…
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Cuts to PCB board.
Emanuele voice-over: The first one is an electronic, custom built PCB board to pick up the data from the CAN Bus.
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PCB Board
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Cuts back to Emanuele, before cutting to shot of other electrical boards on vehicle.
Emanuele voice-over: That is basically the communication bus where all the boards over the vehicle talk between each other…
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … and the this data is sent over USB to a smartphone.
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Data sent over USB to a smartphone
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Cuts to close up of smart phone.
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The phone has three main functions
Emanuele voice-over: The phone has three main functions.
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Cuts to driver using phone, followed by team members standing around vehicle in the paddock.
Emanuele voice-over: The first one is to use it as a communication device towards the paddocks, as our calling device to…
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Calling device
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … keep always updated about the current status of the track…
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Cuts to team members analysing data on laptop.
Emanuele voice-over: … and in the meantime it is also used to send the data over the internet.
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Send data
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Cuts to shot of the phone on the steering wheel, before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: Then this smartphone is also used as a screen for the driver that sees the parameters of the car.
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Screen for the driver
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Cuts to split-screen of driver and smartphone.
Emanuele voice-over: For example, its speed or the voltage level of the the hydrogen fuel cell.
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Cuts to vehicle running on track, before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: The third main block is a website that we created.
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Cuts to two team members using a laptop.
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Website that we created
Emanuele voice-over: The website is used in real time from the strategists that are able to access the data from the car, anywhere in the world.
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
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Access the data from the car anywhere in the world
Emanuele: So also the guys from Italy…
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Cuts to vehicles running on tracks, followed by shots of spectators.
Emanuele voice-over: … are actually capable of following what's happening on track and the current parameters of the vehicle.
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Transitions to scrapbook graphic, before cutting back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: Team H2Politio as a strategy division whose main goal is to analyse both real time data and the post-processing data.
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Analyse both real time date and the post-processing data
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Cuts to close ups of team member using a laptop.
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Real
Time
Emanuele voice-over: In real time, we use it to make minor adjustments…
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Minor Adjustments
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … both remotely and also on board the car to try to consume as less fuel as possible in that run.
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To consume as less fuel as possible
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Cuts to split-screen of spectators watching vehicles run on track.
Emanuele voice-over: We use the post-processing data…
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Post-processing
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
Emanuele: … to get a mathematical model of the car…
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Mathematical model
Emanuele: … as close as possible to the reality…
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Cuts to over-the-shoulder shot of team members watching vehicles run on track.
Emanuele voice-over: … and to analyse it and then create the strategies for the competition…
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Cuts to three-way split of team members celebrating and hugging.
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Create strategies
Emanuele voice-over: … in order to achieve the max energy efficiency.
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Max energy efficiency
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Cuts back to Emanuele.
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- Emanuele SimeoneAll the hardware and software in the telemetry system… are designed and built by us.
