(Source: IIT Madras)įor the team from IIT-Madras, the objective is to take the hyperloop technology forward beyond what the competition permits so that they can first implement it on a smaller scale in India, before scaling it up further.įor example, the objective is to travel longer distances, but the pod is only 3 metres long now. One mile is a very short distance, so it’s all about how fast the pod can cover that distance,” says a team member.īeyond SpaceX Hyperloop Competitions Avishkar Hyperloop Team with their Hyperloop Pod, which was unveiled on June 14, 2019. There is potential for damage when you set up the propulsion. Take the linear induction motor, for example, which makes the pod heavy.īased on the dimensions of the tube, there are restrictions on what you can do with the pod. Thus, most of the advanced technologies required for the actual hyperloop may not win you the competition because of the time it takes to accelerate. You have to accelerate, reach a steady stage, brake, and come to a complete stop at the end. “One problem with this competition is the site of the pod run in the SpaceX facility, which is a one-mile tube of a specific dimension. In fact, Hyperloop One set up a student-level competition in India to find out what is the most economically viable hyperloop route, and that’s where they came up with the Chennai-Bangalore-Mumbai via Pune route. Virgin Atlantic acquired one of them, and today it’s called Virgin Hyperloop One. Instead, he has set up this competition, and a couple of winners in the past have spawned startups. Musk started something called the Boring Company that comes up with cost-effective ways of boring tunnels underground for creating new traffic lanes as well as hyperloop.īut SpaceX is mainly focussing on their rockets. Here, it’s sufficient if you can push the vehicle with some kind of propulsion, reach whatever velocity you want, and it will continue to move at high speeds,” says Dr SR Chakravarthy, Faculty Advisor, Avishkar Hyperloop, and Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, in a conversation with The Better India. For conventional vehicles on the ground, an engine is necessary to propel it all the way. If you’re able to eliminate both, then all you have to do is push the vehicle initially, accelerate it up to a certain velocity, and without an engine, it will continue to operate at the same velocity because nothing is stopping it. “The basic idea Elon Musk put out was that any vehicle that is moving on the ground has to face wheel friction and air resistance. The reduced air resistance allows the capsule inside the tube to reach speeds of more than 1000 km/h, which is faster than your average flights. Hyperloop is the fifth mode of transportation, a high-speed train that travels in a near-vacuum tube. (Source: IIT Madras)Īccording to a recent press release, “It is one of the Top 21 teams out of 1600+ teams participating globally and the only Asian team to enter the finals of SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition scheduled for July 21, 2019.”
The Hyperloop Pod of the Avishkar Hyperloop Team, which was unveiled on June 14, 2019. Since its announcement in 2015, SpaceX has conducted three such competitions in January 2017, August 2017, and July 2018.Įnter Avishkar Hyperloop, the student team from IIT Madras, which has built the first-ever self-propelled, completely autonomous Hyperloop Pod in India. While the focus of SpaceX as an aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company remains intact, in June 2015, it announced the Hyperloop Pod Competition.Īccording to SpaceX, the objective of the competition is to “support the development of functional prototypes and encourage innovation by challenging student teams to design and build the best high-speed pod.”
“Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would, of course, be awesome (someone, please do this) the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment.” Back in 2013, Elon Musk, the legendary tech entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX, described the hyperloop in these words:
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