MODELLING AND DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF A SOLAR VEHICLE FOR TRACK EVENTS
World Solar Challenge (WSC) is a race held for solar powered vehicles from all around the world in every two years and multiple contestants from Turkey attend to this competition.
The aim of this paper is to find a way of increasing the performance of vehicle during the qualifying lap of the race via modelling and dynamically simulating the solar vehicle. For this study, IPG/Carmaker software is used and a solar vehicle formed by two front and one rear wheel is modelled.
Performance enhancer parameters including the vehicle design is selected and implemented to the model. Additional to vehicle model, race track is also modelled according to its physical features. According to gathered simulation results vehicle velocity and race duration is optimized.
Vehicle is also tested on additional test cycles from literature and test outcomes are compared. Moreover, discussion between studies from literature is held.
