Development of Data Acquisition System using non-invasive Hardware and 3D software for Electric all terrain Vehicle

As today's modern vehicles are equipped with tons of electronics, data acquisition becomes easy as the necessary data regarding the vehicle is already available in the ECUs. The objective of this paper is to build a data acquisition system for a vehicle. The system is a part of Electric All-terrain Car developed to participate in SAE India BAJA 2018. The DAQ is designed using non invasive hardware and 3D graphic user interface in Unity 3D game engine. The proposed DAQ system aims at acquiring, interpreting, visualizing and analyzing the Suspension Travel, Inclination, Current Consumption and SoC, GPS location of an electric all-terrain vehicle. A low cost Ultrasonic Reflector sensor is used to measure the suspension travel.