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COBEM 2021
26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Design of an electro-pneumatic gear shifter for a Formula SAE vehicle
Submission Author:
Marcus Vitorio , SC
Co-Authors:
Marcus Vitorio, Andrea Piga Carboni
Presenter: Marcus Vitorio
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2021.COB2021-0177
Abstract
This work presents the design of a new gear shifter for a Formula SAE vehicle, developed by the Formula CEM team from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The team's former gear shifter had proven itself to be unreliable and faulty, compromising the overall performance of the vehicle during the competition. Back's et al PRODIP methodology was applied to the selection and design of the product, relying on boundary conditions and design alternatives supported by mathematical models, benchmark, and experimentation. The authors conclude with a semi-automatic electro-pneumatic device for gear selection and clutch activation. Tests of the mechanism, either in laboratory and on track, are presented and the results are discussed.
Keywords
FSAE, Gear Shifter, Pneumatic, Prodip, development
