Monthly work summary for 2025-09 focusing on business value and technical achievements for the Northeastern Electric Racing Shepherd-BMS repository.

July 2025 monthly summary for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Shepherd-BMS. Focused on reliability and safety of the thermal management subsystem through a targeted refinement of the thermal fault detection logic. The change enhances fault visibility and response timing, contributing to safer operation and reduced risk of thermal incidents in real-world driving conditions.

Month: 2025-04 — Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base: No new features delivered and no bug fixes recorded. Focus for the period was on stabilizing the codebase and preparing for upcoming feature work in the next sprint. Continued adherence to code quality practices and repo hygiene to reduce risk and enable faster delivery in May.

Month: 2025-03 — Cerberus (Northeastern-Electric-Racing). Delivered two high-impact updates that expand the operating envelope and strengthen fault diagnostics, with clear commit-level traceability. Key features delivered include APPS2 Voltage Threshold Enhancement and Calypso Fault Reporting Robustness fix, supported by focused engineering effort and cross-team collaboration.

February 2025 – Cerberus RPM Tracking Initialization. Delivered initialization of the rpm member in the dti_t structure to 0, ensuring RPM starts from a known state and enabling reliable RPM tracking functionality. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: provides a deterministic starting point for RPM-related telemetry and control, laying groundwork for future monitoring, analytics, and RPM-driven features. Technologies/skills demonstrated: C struct manipulation, state initialization, git-based change management, and ensuring system-wide state consistency.

January 2025 monthly summary for Northeastern-Electric-Racing projects (FinishLine and Cerberus). Focused delivery across data modeling, test utilities reliability, and system safety, with clear business value and measurable technical impact.

November 2024: Delivered critical reliability and performance improvements across multiple repositories, with ongoing Embedded-Base maintenance. Key features include a CAN message rate limiting system in Shepherd-BMS and torque limiting with enhanced CAN/NERO messaging in Cerberus, plus important submodule maintenance. Work focuses on reducing CAN bus load, improving safety during endurance runs, and strengthening code maintainability and test coverage.

Month 2024-10: Stabilized fault signaling sequencing to prevent race conditions in Cerberus by introducing controlled timing around peripheral shutdown. Implemented a 1-second delay after fault transition before writing the fault once the MPU is OFF, ensuring peripherals are fully shut down prior to fault signaling. This change reduces fault-signaling hazards in safety-critical operation and improves system reliability.