1.4 the Motorsport Data Acquisition System
This item was submitted to Loughborough’s Institutional Repository (https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/) by the author and is made available under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions. For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ A SYSTEM FOR AIDING THE USER ASSIMILATION OF ACQUIRED MOTORSPORT DATA By Matthew C. Parker BEng. (Hons) DIS A Doctoral Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University 2010 © M. C. Parker (2010) AAbbssttrraacctt A racing car is a complex machine, featuring many adjustable components, used to influence the car‟s performance and tune it to a circuit, the prevailing conditions and the driver‟s style. A race team must continually monitor the car‟s performance and a race engineer communicates with the driver to decide how best to optimise the car as well as how to extract most from the driver himself. Analysis of acquired vehicle performance data is an intrinsic part of this process. This thesis presents an investigation into methods to aid the motorsport user‟s assimilation of acquired vehicle performance data. The work was directly prompted by personal experience and published opinion. These both find that the full potential of acquired data in motorsport is seldom realised, primarily because of the time available to analyse data with the resources available to a racing team. A complete solution including data management methods and visualisation tools was conceived here as a means of addressing these issues. This work focuses on part of the overall solution concept; the development of a visualisation application giving the user a detailed and realistic three-dimensional replay of a data set.
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