success stories – university of Michigan Page 1 Improved Control System Drives Home Honors for U-M Racing Team The Michigan Hybrid Racing Team took home fourth-place honors at the 2013 Formula HybridTM Compe- tition and received a second place innovation award from Chrysler for its use of complex controls imple- mented with a dSPACE MicroAuto- Box ® (MABX). Team Captain Sam Haberl said the car has been an ongoing project for the last two years, involving approximately 60 U-M students with various backgrounds rang- ing from mechanical and electri- cal engineering to energy systems and material sciences. Over the past several months, the team had been carrying out a heavy redesign effort focused on mak- ing improvements to the vehicle’s control system. “The most challen

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