Chris Mulqueen will be responsible for Data Acquisition.

It is important for the team to have the ability to efficiently gather and store data about the performance of the boat. This allows for the data to be analyzed later on to locate issues or possible improvements for the boat to optimize its performance. This year’s goal is to successfully measure the voltage and current of the batteries, the current and RPM of the endurance motor, the speed of the boat, and the pitch angle. An Arduino Mega 2560 will be the microcontroller board used to acquire and process the data from the various sensors. The current designs include having hall effect sensors to measure the currents, an optical sensor to measure the RPM and a pitot tube along with a differential pressure sensor to measure the speed of the boat. These sensors convert the data into voltage signals for the Arduino to process, which means the voltage of the batteries does not require a sensor. Instead, it will need a voltage divider because the voltage of the batteries far exceeds the operating voltage of the Arduino Mega 2560.