Quiz Preparation

1. How many pages of text are allowed in the Engineering Design Report? (Multiple choice)

2. What does a black flag mean?

3. How many points are assigned for the Overall Vehicle Concept in the Engineering Design Event? (Multiple choice)

4. How many points are assigned for the pitch video in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

5. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

6. What is the length of the acceleration track?

7. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

8. How many points are assigned for the BOM and BOM discussion in the Cost and Manufacturing Event?

9.

Which of the following parts are not part of the Shutdown Circuit? (Multiple choice)

10. Ten pages of text are allowed in the Engineering Design Report

1. What is the penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

2.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data.

3. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

4. Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

5. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.0 secs but knocks down 11 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

6. What is the diameter of the outside skidpad circle?

7. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

8. Which of the following documents is directly evaluated during Engineering Design Event?

9. How long is water sprayed on the car during the rain test?

10. What is the minimum height of the university name and the car number added together?

11. Can a team be eliminated from the Engineering Design Event by the judges, if every document of theirs was accepted and they are present at the Engineering Design Event?

12. What is the diameter of the inside skidpad circle?

13. What is the area of the cockpit opening template (including the area allowed for the steering) in square inches rounded to one decimal place?

14. Your team recieves 59.3 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 71.9 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

15. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multiple Choice)

16. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.9 secs and that was the fastest overall time. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

17.

How many teams can be registered per university? (Multiple Choice)

18. How many percentage of points is the Cost Understanding in the Overall Cost and Manufacturing Event?

19. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

20. The length of the acceleration track is 75m. Hypothetically the acceleration of the cars is constant, and linear, without slip. The vehicle starts from the starting line of the Acceleration track and then covers 75m. At the finish line, the speed of the racing car is 108 km/h.

How much time (in secs) is needed for the car complete the Acceleration Event and what was the acceleration of the car ( in m/s^2)? Give the answers as whole numbers sparated by a comma (?, ?).

1. Fred, the racing alpaca, challenges Coco, the 3-leged cat, to an acceleration event according to D 5.1.1. Being very confident, Fred gives Coco a head start h of 14 m infront of the start line. Both start the same time t=0 s having an initial speed V0 of 0m/s as shown in the figure. Coco accelerates with 6m/s^2. Assume that both are not limited by speed and have a constant acceleraton over the full acceleration event.

Calculate the minimum acceleration Fred needs to achieve to reach the finish line at the same time as Coco. Round to one decimal.

2. Your vehicle has its right-hand base coordinate frame defined with the x-axis pointing forward into the driving direction and the z-axis upwards.
A camera is positioned on the vehicle as follows, in the vehicle coordinate frame:
x = 500 mm, y = 160 mm, z = 1140 mm
and the Euler angles ZY′X′′
roll = 100°, pitch = 0°, yaw = 90°
Assume the camera has no distortion, a resolution of 1280 px × 1080 px, and the principal point (cx and cy) and the focal lengths (fx and fy) are given by:
cx = 636 px, cy = 548 px, fx = 241 px, fy = 238 px
The point (u, v)0 is defined to be (u, v)0 = (-cx, -cy) as commonly used.
Within the camera image plane, z-axis in viewing direction, an object center is detected at pixel:
u = 795 px, v = 467 px
Another sensor determines the euclidian distance of the object to the camera frame as:
d = 2.7 m
Calculate the 3D position of the object in the vehicle coordinate frame in meter. Round to three decimals. Give the solution in the following format: x, y, z, e.g. 1.234, 5.678, 9.012

3. A single-cylinder four-stroke engine with a total displacement of 623.7 cm3 has the following theoretical design: piston stroke s = 52 mm, connecting rod length l = 66 mm, piston diameter d = 38 mm. The ignition timing point is given as Sk = 2.0 mm before TDC.
Calculate the ignition timing point in ° crankshaft before TDC. Round to one decimal.

4.

The figure shows internal single walls of the TSAC and their cutouts.
Which of these walls are rules compliant? Mark all correct answers.

5.

The figure shows the output voltage Vout versus the input voltage Vin as the transfer function of 74LVC1G34, a non-inverting LVTTL buffer.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffer obeys the following static discipline:

Does the given tranfer curve satisfy the static discipline? Mark all correct answers.

6. For the shown drive train, the input rotational speed is 3600 min-1, and the number of teeth of the sprocket is z1 = 20.
ease note: n2 = n3, n4 = n5, n6 = n7.
The number of teeth of the sprockets are:
z1 = 20, z2 = 45, z3 = 24, z4 = 55, z5 = 30, z6 = 43, z7 = 15, z8 = 53
Calculate the rotational speed in min^-1 for the final sprocket z8 where the driveshafts are mounted. Round to one decimal.

7. Consider a digital LVTTL signal from your pedalbox to your main control unit. The length / of the cable inbetween is 5m. Your motor controllers introduce a noise of 0.15 V per meter cable. To correct for that noise, you introduce 74LVC1G34, non-inverting buffers into the cable.
The purpose of the buffer is to take a signal, to which a certain amount of noise has been added so that it would no longer meet the input specification of the static discipline, and clean it up so that it once again meets the output specification of the static discipline.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffers, as well as the gates shown, obey the following static discipline:

What is the minimum number of non-inverting LVTTL buffers required to connect inbetween in oder to ensure correct operation?

8. In which cases will team members be denied their on-site member pass?
Mark all correct answers!

9. In the following there are multiple statements abount the rules. Which statements are correct?

10. The sequence x[n]=(-1)^n is obtained by sampling the continuouse-time sinusoidal signal x(t)= cos(w0t) at 1-ms intervals, i.e.,

Determine the three smallest distinct possible values of w0 as a multiple of nx10^3 in the following format: w0 1, w0 2, w0 3, e.g 1, 2, 3

1. In which cases will team members be denied their on-site member pass?
Mark all correct answers!

2. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

3. According to the FS Rules and the competition handbook: Which statements are true?

4. In the following there are multiple statements abount the rules. Which statements are correct?

1. Which of the following statements about LV battery packs with lithium based chemistry other than LiFePo4 is not true?

2. How much current flows when 99 C passes down a wire in 11 s? Give answer in amps as a whole number.

3. Your head of powertrain has found a battery cell with excellent specifications and yet cheap. He decides upon a 142s2p accumulator configuration using the cells with a capacity of 5.8 Ah. The manufacturer specifies an internal impedance of 1.5 mOhm. However, after a while you notice the cells are of horrible quality and their real capacity varies significantly leading to an unbalanced accumulator.

He performed experiements to find an approximation of the cells SoC relation to their open-circuit voltage (EMF) as shown in the following figure:

Assume due to imbalance, exactly half of the accumulators cells are at 40% SoC and half at 80% SoC. What current will be drawn at the maximum allowed power usage? Give answer in Amps to nearest whole number

4. Three inductors are connected as shown in the following figure:

Given that L1 = 2L2, find L1 and L2 such that the equivalence inductance is L = 0.7 H.
Give your answers in Henry, rounded to three decimal places separated by a comma (L1, L2)

5. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

6. Which of the following statements is false regarding the difference between Lead-based batteries, Nickel-based batteries and Lithium-based batteries?

7. Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

8. Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

9. Which of the following statements about the Tractive System Accumulator are wrong? (Multiple choice)

10. For this Wheatstone Bridge based NTC temperature measurement circuit, which is the lowest voltage measurement (VAB) that is possible to obtain at 60ºC? (NTC B: 3435 +/-1%) Give answer in Volts rounded to two decimal points.

1. A 30 lbs model helicopter flying at 51 mph, calculate its kinetic energy. Answer in J to 3 significant figures.

2. The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120

3. The Wet Skid Pad World Record was set at FSN2019 by TU Delft. They managed to set a time of 4.901 for the left circle and a time of 5.031 for the right circle. Assume the run was completed perfectly along the center line of the circles. What was their average speed during this record run? Give answer to two decimal places in mph.

4. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.

5. Three inductors are connected as shown in the following figure:

Given that L1 = 2L2, find L1 and L2 such that the equivalence inductance is L = 0.7 H.
Give your answers in Henry, rounded to three decimal places separated by a comma (L1, L2)

6. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

7. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 9.6 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 1.9 m/s. At what time does it reach this height on the way down? Give both answers separated by a comma to one decimal place.

8. Calculate the cornering speed during Skidpad (you can use the centerline radius in the rules) using following information:

μ_y = 1.4,  m = 240 kg,  c_L = 3.2,  A = 1 m^2,  ρ = 1.1  kg/m^3

It is assumed, that there is no weight transfer and all 4 tires are at the optimal grip level. Answer in m/s rounded to one decimal place.

9. A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

10. A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number