Postgraduates and students of the Vladimir Dal Lugansk State University are working on their own version of the Krym roadster in the project that brings together 27 Russian higher education centers.
The Nikolai Bauman Moscow State Technical University’s design bureau has been the organizer of “Krym” roadster development for about a decade. Its partner is the AvtoVAZ car-maker. Young engineers are creating new car design mechanisms and approaches to vehicle maintenance.
Each university receives carrying frames from the organizers and a domestic car for disassembly and use of its parts in the new model. The Dal University's model incorporates the ideas of Motor Transport Department postgraduates Yelena Avdeyeva and Alexander Loshakov and University engineer Yury Taraskin. A distinctive feature of the Lugansk project is the intellectual car maintenance system.
“My task is to research the oil replacement principle and diagnose the condition of oil in real time. It will help the driver to understand whether replacement which normally depends on mileage has to be carried out sooner. We’ll be developing universal meters which can be used in the roadster and other domestic car model,” Loshakov said.
A certain neural network will be created to record any changes and upload them to the onboard computer. This information is expected to extend car longevity, Avdeyeva said. The postgraduates plan to patent their inventions.
Twenty-seven roadster models are being assembled in Russia at present. The purpose of the project is to gather novelties from each university. The 27 projects then will be pooled into one ahead of possible small batch production of roadster model at AvtoVAZ.
“It is one of the first large technical projects involving Lugansk University students,” said LPR Education Minister Ivan Kusov.
The Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education plans to equip an engineering center and supply consumables to several research labs. Students will find it interesting to study, and their skills will be increasingly personalized, the minister said noting good prospects for the Dal University. *i
