So welcome to Uniti Update
episode three. Today we're going to show
you the VR and we're going to show you a
yacht and a car from India actually! Whay!
And first of all our team, so let's watch that!
First of all, we've got some notes
on all the teams what they've been up to
this week. So the design team.
The Design Team.
They have been working on a new process
for a design iteration. They've been
doing the exterior and the interior and
actually getting their designs into the
virtual reality simulator. And putting
out some 3D models of it of course.
They've also sent the 3D sketches
for a 3D modeling and that's an external
job I believe? Yeah! And for you industrial
designers out there they use Alias and
Maya and 3Ds Max. Yeah, so programs, software.
Then we have the Corporate Team!
And the corporate team is
actually our Marketing team and our
financial people, so they're
looking for governmental funding for our
heads-up display and some other things.
So we wanted to do like a collaboration
with an external company for the
heads-up display.
So we're trying to work
with external parts on that. And new
spaces because we're actually thinking
sizing up the whole place here
to somewhere in Lund, or outside of Lund.
We're not sure yet.
And that gets us into the Engineers!
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The ENGINEER TEAM
And these engineers that you see here have
actually been looking for machines and
that's why we need a new big space.
These machines are in Småland and that's
where they've been too visit and look at
them and things like that.
We're not talking the regular drill here. We're
talking like a big lathe, big CNC.
And one last thing they've been working
on this week is trying to import an
electric car from India, which you will
see later on in this episode.
Yeah stay tuned!
Moving on to R&D.
Research and Development.
They've been researching and developing a
lot of things. So what they've been
working on this week is there working on
the robot. So this robot is using
different systems to get us one step
closer to the autonomous driving system.
Previously this robot has been this size
and they want to scale it up to a big
system. And that's also what we mentioned
about the electric car from India. It's
actually going to be implemented onto
that car so we're going to have an
autonomous electric car from India!
Thesis... I don't know what it says here...
Yeah!  It says thesis work and they're
getting people here to do their thesis on
different things...
Path planning I believe!
So they want to work out a system
on how to choose the route.
You know all ways lead to Rome, but there's many of
them, so you get to choose one. And that...
that's what they're working on basically.
And they've also been working on
something called a PID speed control.
That's like a control system. It's basically
if you accelerate you can either
make the motor for full speed instantly
or like more ramp up to speed.
You need to trim that so it's safe but
still feels nice. You want a bit of
acceleration in the back when you accelerate.
So that was everything
So that was everything for our teams
and now we're going to answer a question
that we got last week. First of all, thank
you for your engagement. We love this and
please if you're watching and you have a
question or a thought or something you
would like to see in the episodes, please ask.
So Fin JackLee asked:
And we thought that'd be great!
Thing is we have two different virtual
reality simulators. The first one we call
the Kepler Pod, like you see here and it
actually has handles. And this one was
used to drive around in.
And this was to
test the dynamic environment in the car,
however now that we're building the
prototype it's a little bit obsolete.
So we moved on to actually working on a new
VR and it's static.
SVT was here.
That's the largest television channel in
Sweden and they were trying the virtual
reality simulator that we just built. So
we thought we could show you when they
were here and trying it out.
Here you can see one of the SVT
journalists trying it out and here's
we test the interfaces and things
like that, and you can see the whole
interior and you can actually walk
around the car!
And so that was the SVT clip.
It was super fun being in the
news on the Swedish channel SVT.
It's one of the largest channels in Sweden
and it was super great coverage.
Yeah so there was that was the TV, cool!
Have your grandparents watched that?
I don't have a grandparents...
Oh... Sorry...
That's why you never ask that question...
No... So...
Well, now.
And now we're gonna go on to India.
And why are we going on to India?
The previous prototype for the autonomous
driving platform is small, but our car is
gonna be big. So we want to try stuff on
a big scale system. That's why we need an
electric car, could be any car, it just
needs four wheels and electric motors.
We figured we'll buy one from Bangalore, India.
So we actually acquired a
full-scale electric car from India
through one of our engineers here at Uniti, Rudy.
And Rudy is going to talk a
little bit of the process of getting the
electric car. So Rudy, what stages
have you had during the process?
Firstly, we had a lot of the discussions
in the office, where we had to decide on
what kind of chassis that we should have
to build a mule car and everybody
were very open to give their opinions on what
kind of chassis we should have. We had to go
for a compact car which we can buy for a
cheaper price. And then we thought of
importing a car from India.
Ok, so who are the people that have
actually helped us getting it?
Yeah, we had like my childhood friends
and school mates, but they are
studying with me in India and they have
been following us since I know Uniti.
Because as I love it, I told them that
this is an interesting project that's
being done in Uniti Sweden.
Cool!
Now we're going to see a clip
from the whole process and Rudy's
friends in Bangalore.
So that was the car. It's on its way now
to Sweden, but it doesn't actually have
batteries because the weight is a little
too much and it's heavy and not so cost efficient.
So, Isak actually had an idea on how
to get new batteries.
We could buy new ones, it would be
very expensive and also not as good
for the environment. So instead, I have
a friend that works on a yacht and this
yacht is actually replacing its batteries
and we could use them batteries.
Even though they're replacing them, they're
not terribly bad, they still work
good enough for a prototype.
So let's watch the yacht!
Please come aboard!
Should we go down and see what's happening here.
Let's see if we can get one of these out!
So for the prototype we need 8 of these.
How much do the weigh?
50 kilos
That was a yacht there as you saw, it's a
huge boat in other words and...
Diesel though...
We have some work to do on boats.
But we'll start with cars!
Now we're actually getting the car
and the batteries here to the office and
we're going to mount them together and
then get our autonomous system up and
running on full-scale. So that's going to
be something cool!
I think that was it for this week.
If you have questions or comments or things like that
or you'd like to see more of or anything
like that,
please do feel free to comment below and
we will try to respond to them.
And if you're having car problems Uniti ain't one!
Hit me!
