URE17

The Amalgamation

Achievements

FS Netherlands 2023

Overall 5/33 - TT circuit Assen

- 2nd place Skidpad

FS East 2023

Overall 13/22 - Hungaroring

FS Germany 2023

Overall 12/71 EV - Hockenheim ring

Overall 9/30 DC

- 3rd place DV Skidpad

The URE17 was the car that extracted the potential of the new concepts that the URE16 had introduced. Simultaneously, next to some smaller performance boosts, it introduced a significant decrease in the car's weight.

Technical Specifications

General

Weight

Length

Width

Height

0-100 time

Aerodynamics

Downforce

Dragforce

Drag Reduction

Chassis

Dual-piece carbon fibre monocoque

In-house laminated using pre-impregnated carbon fibers

Electronics

21-way digital fusebox, settable via CAN

Live Telemetry via WiFi

Smart Display in steering wheel

Custom 2x live telemetry dashboard

Control Software

Torque Vectoring

State of charge estimation

Power limit controller

Wheel speed controller

DRS controller

Endurance controller

Traction control

72kg at 60km/h

26kg at 60km/h

System on rear wing

220kg

2988mm

1425mm

1200mm

2.1s

4x Fischer

2x Lenze Mobile DCU 60/60

140kW/80kW (competition limited)

4 x 29.1Nm

7.0kWh

600V

14.06:1 compounded planetary gear set

Powertrain

Motor

Motor controller

Max power

Max torque

Battery capacity

Battery voltage

Final drive

Suspension

Front

Rear

ARS

Dampers

Tires

Trackwidth

Wheelbase

Braking

Autonomous Systems

Driverless ECU

LiDAR Sensor

Camera Sensor

Cone detection

Localisation & mapping

Path planning

Path tracking

Steering control

Velocity control

Direct acting multilink suspension

Multilink suspension

Rear anti-roll bar with flex blades

KW 3-way adjustable FS dampers

205/50R10 custom Vredestein R&D

1220/1220mm (F/R)

1535mm

Custom developed, additive manufacturing brake callipers

NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX

Ouster OS1-32

NileCAM81_CUOAGX

Custom algorithms for localization

& color matching

FastSLAM 2.0

Cubic spline, custom modes per event

Control based on bicycle model

Dual-loop on position and velocity level

Proportional control and feedforward

Team Members

Management

Dion Engels - Chief Executive Officer Pascal Ruwen - Chief Mechanical and Drivetrain Aris van Ieperen - Chief Electronics, Software and Powertrain Rense Nijenkamp - Chief Autonomous Systems and Control Marco Jonkers - Chief Vehicle Dynamics and Testing
Aerodynamics

Bram Backhuijs Dennis De Niel Tom Oosterholt Ralf Reinartz Max van IJsseldijk
Autonomous Systems

Rody Aerts Guus Bauwens Dennis van den Brandt Guus Engels Dennis Gubbels Jesse Koenders Richard Nusselder Tijs van der Smagt Alex Ummelen Teun Urselmann Niels Vervaet
Business

Danny Scheffer Bram Smolenaars
Chassis

Wouter Doelman Sieuwe Elferink Lars Leemans
Control

Sanjay Dinker Vignesh Gowrisankar Tom Heinen Nino Messaoudi Yash Sinha Thom Wijshoff
Cost

Max van Riel Danny Scheffer
Electronics & Software

Dennis van den Brandt Josh Claessen Raymond de Groot Tymek Feldman Niek Kesteloo Shane Pereira Gina Sprenger Thibeau Teuwen Jeroen Verbong
Operations & PR

Lars Hak Carla Meijer Bram Smolenaars Bart Verrijt
Powertrain

Wouter Andriesse Matthis de Lange Arvind Desikan Joep Jacobs David Matos Len Schoemakers
Testing

Rohan Jikar
Vehicle Dynamics

Elise Levert Lars Mulder Wenger Pwa
Advisory Alumni

Willian Bens Bjork van der Donk Lars Hermans Lennard Katan Sjoerd Knippenberg Rob Neggers Zjelko Parfant Teun Pijs
Advisory Commission

dr. ir. Bas Vermulst ir. Robbin van Hoek
Advisory Board

dr. ir. Igo Besselink dr. ir. Joris Remmers ir. Korneel Wijnands ir. Erwin Dekkers

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