Vehicle Launch Control Interface for Safe High-Acceleration Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle launch control systems lack a comprehensive interface for efficiently transitioning vehicle components to achieve high acceleration while ensuring component safety and longevity.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle launch control system that includes a controller to receive inputs for transitioning components like the battery, drive units, and suspensions, providing graphical feedback, and enabling launch mode only when components are in a predefined configuration, allowing for high acceleration without exceeding component limits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If vehicle components are transitioned to enable high acceleration launch mode, then vehicle acceleration performance is improved, but component safety and operational limits may be exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary transitions of vehicle components (battery, drive units, suspensions) to a launch configuration before initiating high acceleration. The controller checks whether components are in the predefined launch configuration and only enables launch mode after successful transition, ensuring components are prepared and within safe operational ranges before high acceleration begins.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller provides graphical feedback on a display device indicating the state of component transition and whether the vehicle is ready for launch mode. This feedback mechanism allows the driver to monitor component status and understand when the vehicle is prepared for high acceleration, creating a communication loop between system state and user awareness.
2Reliability
If comprehensive component transition checking is implemented before launch, then component reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller performs multiple functions: it manages battery power, controls drive unit transitions, monitors suspension states, provides graphical feedback on the display device, and enables/disables launch mode based on component configuration. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single controller, the system achieves comprehensive component management without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A controller of a vehicle presents interfaces enabling selection of launch control and indicating states of driver-controllable components (steering wheel, pedals) to enable the driver to configure the driver-controllable components suitable for performing a launch. Following selection of launch control and during verification of the driver-controllable components, components of the vehicle are configured in preparation for launch, such as drive units, battery, and/or suspension. A countdown may be displayed on a display device and a reaction time of the driver measured relative thereto. Data may be collected during a launch and subsequent run and be displayed during the run or superimposed on video data captured during a run.