Team Details

As of 2022, this class has been integrated into the other two classes.

TU Darmstadt Racing Team e.V.

University Technische Universität Darmstadt
DE Darmstadt TU short 25
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LocationDarmstadt, Germany
Homepagehttps://www.dart-racing.de/
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CV Team Akademische Motorsportgruppe Darmstadt e.V.
EV Team TU Darmstadt Racing Team e.V.
Short Linktid.fsg.one/779

Event Profile

Past Events

Car 842 – 2021
2021
Car #842
Info
The TU Darmstadt Racing Team was founded in 2005 and is attending FSG since its beginning. 2011 the Team switched to electric cars, and 2017 decided to go driverless. 40 students are currently working on the electric and the driverless project. Since last year we build a car designed for the participation in electric and driverless class. This year the focus of the autonomous system was the enhancement of the sensor pipeline.
Engineering Design Priorities:
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Car Specifications
General
Frame Construction One-shot monocoque
Material Carbonfiber Prepreg with aluminium honeycomb
Overall Length (mm) 2994
Overall Width (mm) 1454
Overall Height (mm) 1201
Wheelbase (mm) 1534
Track Front (mm) 1378
Track Rear (mm) 1331
Weight Front (kg) 98
Weight Rear (kg) 106
Suspension Double, unequal-length A-Arms, Push rod actuated horizontally oriented spring and damper
Tyres Continental - 205/470 R13
Wheels 7x13, 17.95 mm offset, 1 pc CFRP Rim
Drive Type Directly driven planetary gearbox
Differential n.a.
Cooling Water-cooled wtih radiators on diffusor
Brake System 4-Disk System, self developed rotors with 220mm diameter front and rear
Electronics Torque vectoring, Bidirectional TCP streaming via WLAN, Multifunctional Steering Wheel
Powertrain
Number of Motors 4
Motor Location One motor per wheel
Max Motor Power 4x 35,4kW
Motor Type 4x PSM from Fischer
Max Motor RPM 20000
Motor Controller Lenze Schmidhauser
Max System Voltage (V) 443V
Electrode Materials Polymer Li-Ion Battery
Accumulator Capacity 5.81kWh
Transmission Ratio Primary 13.73
Transmission Ratio Secondary n.a.
Driverless System
Processing Units i7-9700K, RTX2060-6G
Processing Units FLOPS 6452.4
Processing Units Power (W) 255
Cameras 3x Matrix Vision - mvBlueFOX3
Radar Sensors n.a.
LiDAR Sensors Velodyne
Other Sensors n.a.
DV System Highlights Watercooled CPU and GPU, GraphSLAM using g2o, cone detection using YOLOv5
Car 442 – 2019
2019
Car #442
Info
The TU Darstadt Racing Team was founded in 2005 and is attending FSG since its beginning. 2011 the Team switched to electric cars, and 2017 decided to go driverless. 35 students are currently working on the electric and the driverless project.This year, we built our third driverless vehicle. We used the chance to focus on further improving our autonomous system. An enhanced Sensor Fusion, a SLAM and a racing line generating trajectory planning are just some of this year's highlights.
Engineering Design Priorities:
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Car Specifications
General
Frame Construction Single piece CFRP monocoque
Material CFRP-Prepreg, SGL SIGRAPREG C T24, Aluminium honeycomb
Overall Length (mm) 2966
Overall Width (mm) 1345
Overall Height (mm) 1182
Wheelbase (mm) 1525
Track Front (mm) 1183
Track Rear (mm) 1162
Weight Front (kg) 107
Weight Rear (kg) 132
Suspension Double-wishbone, short-long arm, pull rod, air spring
Tyres 7.5/21.5-15, Avon Tyres A15
Wheels 7x15
Drive Type Two-stage spur gear transmission
Differential 2 indepenent gear sets, electronic differential
Cooling sidepod mounted radiator with thermostatic controlled electric fan
Brake System self developed rotors 240mm dia. front / 200mm dia. rear, adj. brake balance
Electronics Traction control, torque vectoring, Bidirectional TCP streaming via WLAN, HV DCDC for LV
Powertrain
Number of Motors 2
Motor Location Rear Right, Rear Left
Max Motor Power 51kW
Motor Type Brusa Elektronik AG IPM1-10.09.06-dart0b-03
Max Motor RPM 24000
Motor Controller Brusa DMC 514 in CFRP casing
Max System Voltage (V) 336V
Electrode Materials LiCoO2
Accumulator Capacity 6.35kWh
Transmission Ratio Primary 1:4,71
Transmission Ratio Secondary 1:3,93
Driverless System
Processing Units dSPACE MicroAutoBox II, custom PC
Processing Units FLOPS 4285
Processing Units Power (W) 302
Cameras Autonomos Smart Stereo Camera, 110° opening angle
Radar Sensors n/a
LiDAR Sensors 2 Velodyne VLP-16 Hi-Res
Other Sensors VectorNav VN-300, Kistler Correvit SFII
DV System Highlights Neuronal network for computer visision, implementation of Google Cartographer for map generation, redundant kalmann-filter based sensor fusion of camera and lidar data
Car 442 – 2018
2018
Car #442
Info
DART Racing is the Formula Student Team of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The team was founded in 2005 as an IC Team. Since 2011 we build electric race cars and since 2017 two cars each year: one electric and one electric-driverless. The lambda-D2018 is the second fully autonomous race car of our team based on the lambda2016. The main changes to the last year’s driverless car are a new lidar-sensor and a new, hydropneumatic braking-actuator.
Engineering Design Priorities:
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Car Specifications
General
Frame Construction Monocoque
Material CFRP-Prepreg, SGL SIGRAPREG C T24, Aluminium honeycomb
Overall Length (mm) 2966
Overall Width (mm) 1345
Overall Height (mm) 1182
Wheelbase (mm) 1525
Track Front (mm) 1183
Track Rear (mm) 1162
Weight Front (kg) 106
Weight Rear (kg) 146
Suspension Double-wishbone, short-long arm, pull rod, air spring
Tyres 7.5/21.5-15, Avon Tyres A15
Wheels 7x15
Drive Type Two-stage spur gear transmission
Differential 2 indepenent gear sets, electronic differential
Cooling sidepod mounted radiator with thermostatic controlled electric fan
Brake System self developed rotors 240mm dia. front / 200mm dia. rear, adj. brake balance
Electronics Traction control, torque vectoring, Bidirectional TCP streaming via WLAN
Powertrain
Number of Motors 2
Motor Location Rear Right, Rear Left
Max Motor Power 51kW
Motor Type Brusa Elektronik AG IPM1-10.09.06-dart0b-03
Max Motor RPM 24000
Motor Controller Brusa DMC 514 in CFRP casing
Max System Voltage (V) 420V
Electrode Materials LiCoO2
Accumulator Capacity 6.35kWh
Transmission Ratio Primary 1:4,71
Transmission Ratio Secondary 1:3,93
Driverless System
Processing Units Nvidia Drive PX 2, dSPACE MicroAutoBox II
Processing Units FLOPS 9600
Processing Units Power (W) 416
Cameras Autonomos Smart Stereo Camera, 110° opening angle
Radar Sensors -
LiDAR Sensors Velodyne VLP-16 Hi-Res
Other Sensors VectorNav VN-300, Kistler Correvit SFII
DV System Highlights Neuronal network for computer vision (trained with 3000 pictures), self developed mapping algorithm, sensor fusion of LIDAR and camera, localization by differential GPS, control system with 2 degrees of freedom, pneumatic brake actuation
Car 442 – 2017
2017
Car #442
Info
We did reconstruct the lambda2016 to become the first autonomously driving car in the history of our association. To be part of the FSD from the first year on was a concern of ours, since DART always was a participant of the first minuet. The main changes regarding the lambda2016 was, the additional actuators for braking and steering together with an autonomous system.
Engineering Design Priorities:
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Car Specifications
General
Frame Construction Monocoque
Material Single-piece CFRP with Aluminium Honeycomby
Overall Length (mm) 2966
Overall Width (mm) 1345
Overall Height (mm) 1038
Wheelbase (mm) 1525
Track Front (mm) 1183
Track Rear (mm) 1162
Weight Front (kg) 120
Weight Rear (kg) 130
Suspension Double-wishbone, Short-Long Arm, pull rod, air spring
Tyres 7.5/21.5 x 15 Avon
Wheels 7.5/21.5 x 15 Avon
Drive Type two-stage spur gear
Differential -
Cooling Two seperate water circuits
Brake System 4-Disk system, self developed rotors , adjustable brake balance
Electronics selfdesigned Live-Telemetry System, Multifunctional Steering Wheel
Powertrain
Number of Motors 2
Motor Location Back
Max Motor Power 52kW
Motor Type Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine
Max Motor RPM 24.000
Motor Controller BRUSA DMC 514
Max System Voltage (V) 420V
Electrode Materials LiPo
Accumulator Capacity 7kWh
Transmission Ratio Primary 1:18.5
Transmission Ratio Secondary 1
Driverless System
Processing Units Intel NUC, Jetson TX1, Jetson TX2, NI sb-RIO 9627
Processing Units FLOPS 1160
Processing Units Power (W) 150
Cameras 1 * Stereo Labs ZED 20m FoV, 110° Opening Angle, Stereo Camera
Radar Sensors -
LiDAR Sensors -
Other Sensors Swift Navigation Piksi Multi RTK GNSS Module
DV System Highlights Image Processing

FS past achievements due to World Ranking Data Base

Date Event Teams Rank BP CM ED DV SP DV AC AX EN EF Pe Total Engine
2025.08
FS DE DV
42
32.
-
-
30.
-
-
-
-
-
0.00
60.00
2025.08
FS CZ DV
24
23.
-
-
23.
-
-
-
-
-
0.00
162.70
2024.08
FS DE DV
27
13.
-
-
25.
9.
11.
8.
6.
-
0.00
127.50
2024.08
FS CZ DV
12
11.
-
-
11.
-
-
-
-
-
0.00
153.40
2023.08
FS DE DV
30
23.
-
-
21.
-
-
-
-
-
0.00
80.00
2023.08
FS CZ DV
9
2.
-
-
6.
1.
1.
1.
4.
-
0.00
549.00
2022.08
FS DE DV
19
5.
-
-
13.
6.
3.
-
4.
-
0.00
215.44
2022.08
FS East DV
22
8.
12.
12.
7.
5.
7.
8.
-
-
0.00
437.25
2021.08
FS DE DV
17
16.
9.
-
11.
-
-
-
-
-
-64.00
112.55
2019.08
FS ES DV
8
5.
8.
5.
5.
-
2.
2.
3.
-
0.00
315.30
2019.08
FS DE DV
20
10.
4.
19.
5.
-
-
-
-
-
0.00
295.32
2018.08
FS DE DV
17
14.
3.
14.
-
-
-
-
2.
-
-15.00
188.63
2017.08
FS DE DV
15
12.
10.
5.
11.
-
-
-
-
-
-49.00
240.02
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