Im on a Formula SAE team, and for those of you who are unfamiliar with it, we design and manufacture a formula-style race car for competition against 120 other schools from around the world.
To the point - Im interested in creating a Data Aquisitiion system for the car. We already have a standalone Engine management computer so there are many sensors that go to that that to tune the engine. The DAQ i want to create is more for analysis purposes after various track events. For instance brake temperature, wheels speeds, acceleration (3 dimensional), yaw rate and that kind of information would be gathered by the sensor.
From my understanding LabView would have the ability to process the data and display what i want (aka, known acc
eleration, can use algorithm to find velocity), not to mention export the log so i can put it into Excel.
I was wondering if someone could reccomend a DAQ board i should look at. Also i was wondering if there' a possiblity for me to create this to stream and log the data on some internal onboard memory and NOT require a laptop to be hooked up to it the whole time. Ideally it would be standalone, and after a run i'd hook it up to the laptop and download the info (or if i got fancy, do it wireless as it occurs)
thanks for your time
