ARUS puts an end to a season in which they have achieved great technical achievements

The Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville hosted the Closing Event of the 2023/24 Season of the ARUS Andalucía Racing Team. The automobile team of the University of Seville ends a season in which they have competed in the best and most demanding Formula Student circuits, such as Hockenheimring, Germany, or the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, circuits that have been or are on the Formula 1 calendar.

The Sevillian team has faced a unique year in its history, this being the season in which the Driverless mode has been added to the car, that is, an autonomous mode in which, through systems designed and manufactured by the team, The car is capable of overcoming the necessary obstacles and setting off without the need for a driver. 

ARUS has placed itself at the forefront of Andalusian engineering, with the ART-24D being the first autonomous single-seater entirely designed and manufactured in Andalusia. In this way, the team has been able to compete in the Driverless category in the prestigious Formula Student. This has been a particularly demanding challenge for the Perception and Control department, which, with many logical problems as it is a new and ambitious project, has been resolved through incessant tests. However, despite the enormous challenge that was posed to the team, the Perception and Control department had a formidable performance and managed to get the team to compete in this category in its first year, something that is truly unusual.

 This effort was rewarded with third place in the Driverless category of Formula Student Spain. But this team is not static and has not been satisfied with being the first in Andalusia to incorporate an autonomous mode, but on this path of innovation it has proposed another great challenge for this coming season: changing the chassis made up of steel tubes by a single piece of carbon fiber called a monocoque. This entails great challenges, but the team has already proven capable of achieving all its aspirations. 

This innovation, together with a new power system called four wheel drive, represents an important leap in level compared to other years and thus closes a three-year multi-year plan that began in 2022.