Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink
All that tech matters, because the rules for this year's challenge require Cruiser class cars to traverse 1,195km without connecting to the grid to recharge batteries. Top-ups with external solar panels are allowed, but that's only possible for a few hours each day – between the 5:00PM deadline to leave the road and sundown. And of course all cars in the Challenge are coated in as many solar panels as they can manage to ingest energy as they roll.
But while the Challenge's name suggests friendly competition, the event is a race. UNSW intends to take just five days to cross Australia and win its class – maybe even the whole event. The tech aboard Sunswift therefore allows the team to determine the optimal speed at which to travel while preserving power. The team can limit the car's speed – so that even if the driver floors it, the car won't do anything to ruin the energy consumption plan designed to achieve the best result for the day's driving.
Speaking of which, the Nvidia box and associated infrastructure have an energy budget of 15 Watts – a resource that could be used to keep Sunswift rolling.
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