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Data Acquisition

HOW FAST ARE YOU? THE SECRETS OF SPEED DATA INTERPRETATION

March 12, 2015March 12, 2015 Rodrigo de Oliveira Santos 6 Comments Data Acquisition

  Now that you already know the fundamentals of data acquisition and the basics of data acquisition hardware, let’s move on and start to look at what data traces will look like. To begin this series on analysis of data traces, it’s only fair to look at speed data first. Speed is a channel available […]

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THE SIMPLE SECRETS TO UNDERSTAND HOW DATA ACQUISITION HARDWARE WORKS

November 27, 2014January 23, 2015 Rodrigo de Oliveira Santos 2 Comments Data Acquisition

Now that you already know the fundamentals of motorsport data acquisition and why use it, let’s have a more in-depth look on the subject. In this post, I will talk about data acquisition system (DAS) hardware. This is the actual tool the engineer has to collect […]

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DATA ACQUISITION: 6 REASONS TO USE AND THE FUNDAMENTALS YOU MUST KNOW

October 4, 2014January 24, 2015 Rodrigo de Oliveira Santos 12 Comments Data Acquisition

Imagine you are a race engineer on a high-level motorsport team. You are responsible for the development of the vehicle on the track and you must give your blood and sweat to make sure your driver can squeeze the last bit of speed out of the car […]

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Rodrigo de Oliveira Santos


Rodrigo Santos

Performance Engineer, with
experience in IMSA LMP2, Porsche Cup Brazil and other
categories. Senior Vehicle Dynamics Engineer providing VD simulation support for
Multinational Automakers. Read more...

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