Meet Our Team Behind FEST24

See the bright brains behind our current machine in development

Management

Tel: +372 53006581

Team Captain

Kristjan Taimla

Tel: +372 55977107

Chief Engineer

Karl Robin Tiislär

Tel: +372 59031917

Chief of Dynamics

Robert-Juss Soe

Tel: +372 53008371

Chief of Driverless

Anna Sihvart
 

Tel: +372 58375071

Chief of Powertrain

Oskar Järg
 

Tel: +372 59078899

Chief of Composites

Mikk Saarse
 

Tel: +372 56874287

Chief of Electronics

Danel Tiitma

Tel: +372 5151392

Chief of Suspension

Risto Pärn

The Sub-Teams

The general aim of the Admin sub-team is to raise awareness of the Formula Student team through variety of events, social media, and other means. Moreover, this sub-team takes care of finding partners, who would like to contribute to the project and support future engineers. Besides that, all the memories are captured and content for social media are taken care by the Admin sub-team. Last but not least, to create and maintain the website and to develop Business Plan Presentation are also two of many tasks that the Admin sub-team performs.

Saara Suurkivi

Chief of Admin

TalTech Food and Biotechnology BSc

FEST23/24

Cer-Lyn Luhasaar

Website

TalTech Business Information Technology BSc

FEST23/24

The work of the sub-team consists in the design and production of parts from composite materials. The biggest projects under the responsibility of the composite team are the structural solutions of the formula’s monocoque, accumulator container, firewall and the entire aerodynamics package. Self-developed calculation modules, manual calculations and FEM analysis are used in the design of parts. In addition, production drawings are made for each part. Depending on the geometry of the part and the required tolerances, the production technology is developed and the moulds required for production are designed.

Mikk Saarse

Team captain

TalTech Integrated Engineering BSc

FEST22/23/24

Henri Nurmela

Seat

TalTech Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics BSc

FEST22/23/24

Tanel Palmsaar

SES, Inserts

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST22/23/24

Robin Hendrik Vint

LiDAR Mounting

TTK Automotive Engineering BSc

FEST23/24

The driverless team develops the software needed to drive the formula autonomously without human assistance. The tasks of the team can be put into three major categories. First, seeing and perceiving the world, which includes the collection and processing of data from various sensors. Second, it is necessary to understand the position and orientation of the vehicle in the world, and it is also necessary to create a virtual environment for it. The data obtained in the previous category will be used for this task. Thirdly, it is necessary to plan the path and control the formula car. To do that, the position of the car and understanding of the virtual environment will be used.

Anna Sihvart

Team captain

TalTech Product Development
and Robotics BSc

FEST23/24

Tanel Tallo

Chief engineer

TalTech Informatics BSc

FEST23/24

The members deal with the evaluation and influence of the physical phenomena affecting the vehicle, with the aim of achieving its maximum potential. The team’s responsibilities include concept development, lap time simulation, suspension kinematics, aerodynamics, control system and general vehicle dynamics. In addition to their own responsibilities, members have an important role in providing design input to other engineers. Unlike other subteams, the work of dynamics is theoretical, but affects the vehicle the most.

Robert-Juss Soe

Team captain

TTK Mechanical Engineering BSc

FEST22/23/24

Mattias Laos

Overall VD

TTK Mechanical Engineering BSc

FEST20/21/22/23/24

Maano Maasikmets

Aerodynamics & CFD

TalTech Product Development and Production MSc

FEST20/21/22/23/24

Ben Eilaste

Aerodynamics & CFD

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST23/24

Raul Mihkel Anton

Aerodynamics & CFD

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST23/24

The sub-team is responsible for the vehicle’s low-voltage system. The team members are mainly involved in the design and production of wiring and printed circuit boards and programming of certain boards. The vast majority of circuit boards in the car are self-developed. The printed circuit boards have very different tasks: several safety systems, powering the low-voltage system, data acquisition, displaying information to the driver, and so on. The wiring connects all the electronic components together enabling communication through the CAN network.

Danel Tiitma

Team captain

TalTech Hardware Development and Programming BSc

FEST22/23/24

The task of the powertrain team is to make the formula drive using the electrical energy stored in the accumulator. For this, the engineers of the sub-team design a accumulator with the required capacity and voltage, the most efficient voltage converter and motors, a planetary gearbox with a suitable transmission ratio and the cooling system. Since most of the mentioned components contain high voltage, great emphasis is placed on safety and reliability. For this purpose, both manual calculations and analysis programs are used for each system, and the results are validated in the form of real tests.

Oskar Järg

Team captain

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST21/22/23/24

Raigo Seppago

Self-developed Inverter

TalTech Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics MSc

FEST21/22/23/24

Martin Meras

Motors

TalTech Energy Conversion and Control Systems MSc

FEST21/22/23/24

Hans Anniste

Self-developed Inverter

TalTech Electronics and Communication Technologies MSc

FEST19/20/22/24

Maiko Mägi

Battery pack model

TTK Automotive Engineering BSc

FEST21/22/23/24

Karl Kaarlõp

Cooling housing

TalTech Product Development and Production Engineering MSc

FEST19/20/23/24

Maia-Liisa Veldi

Accumulator

TalTech Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics
BSc

FEST23/24

The sub-team learns to design and manufacture mechanical systems. The team’s task is to make the braking and steering system, the suspension and everything related to it – they design all the parts that connect the monocoque to the asphalt. All parts are subjected to strength calculations or FEM analysis, correct production drawings are made before production and tolerance chains are determined.

Risto Pärn

Team captain

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST23/24

Robin Saarniit

Corner Assembly

TTK Automotive Engineering BSc

FEST22/23/24

Karl-Rasmus Uibo

Transmission

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST23/24

Madis Laaser

Stabilisators

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST22/23/24

Helar Pullisaar

Pedalbox

TalTech Product Development and Robotics BSc

FEST22/23/24

Sebastian Mikael Magagni

Upright

TTK Mechanical Engineering BSc

FEST21/22/23/24

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