Ryan
Otsuka

A first year Computer science Student at Georgia Institute of Technology
Ready to pursue real-world challenges and explore ways to support the universe

August 2022 - Present

Controller for Motor Controller Circuit Board
Solar Racing

A solar-powered car meant to travel the country. This amazing vehicle is engineered to be energy efficient vehicle in the Solar Car Competition

What is Solar Racing?

Solar Racing is a competitive solar car racing team at Georgia Tech. They have an engineered car and a ground control team to simulate racing conditions and predict how to best use the energy stored in the car. Therefore, the ground control communicates with the driver for the speed to go at, how to take turns, how to brake, and everything. This is honestly one of the more interesting parts for me :)

What do I do as a part of the Solar Racing team?

Currently, I am working on refactoring code for the MC^2, called the motor controller controller respectively. This is the PCB used for controlling motor controls as it detects input signals from the car to produce respective outputs in the motors for the wheels.