Kogakuin University's solar team has begun planning race strategies such as influential team analysis and energy management for the world tournament to be held in Australia in the fall of 2017.Production of a new vehicle is in progress at the same time, and the completion announcement is scheduled for June 2017.
The team has developed a PV-MapEye: "Virtual Reality 8D + Time Axis" in collaboration with Clean Energy Japan Co., Ltd., a team support company, at the same time as the production of a new vehicle for the world tournament approaching eight months later. We have started to formulate a race strategy using "new construction technology for the solar cell plant used".
PV-MapEye is a new solar cell plan construction technology that realizes 3D design that supports plant design from simulation of sunshine and power generation that introduces a time axis by drawing a drawing on a map as "virtual reality 4D".
By introducing PV-MapEye in collaboration with industry and academia, student leader Yoshiki Kaneshiro (1st year master's student, Department of Mechanical Engineering) said, "Solar cars called" moving solar cells "are affected by shadows and terrain. We believe that the new 3D design, which incorporates time-axis sunshine and power generation simulation into the design using the 4D space of virtual reality, can also contribute to the development of solar cars. Motivation and communication through support companies and products. I have learned power and creativity, and I am confident that this kind of experience in industry-academia collaboration will improve the organizational strength of the team. "
In addition, the solar team cooperates in promotion by utilizing the viewpoints of users who use PV-MapEye and the viewpoints unique to students. Students create videos that introduce PV-MapEye technology. It will be exhibited at the "PV EXPO 2017 International Solar Cell Exhibition" to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from March 3st to 1rd, 3.
The solar team, which has more than 200 members, consists of the engineering department, which mainly handles vehicles, the management department, which handles general public relations and coordinates social contribution activities and industry-academia collaboration, and the finance department (finance and public relations group), which is in charge of accounting in general. Divided into 3 groups, all of which are carried by students.By actively engaging in social contributions and industry-academia collaboration as well as racing, we are working to improve the level of team organization, planning, and technical capabilities.
