Hyperloop India

01/08/2023

Edit: The deadline for the application has been changed to 7th August 2023, 11:59 PM

Hello everyone!
Hyperloop India is now recruiting first and higher-degree students from all BITS campuses.
Being the first Indian team to participate in the finals of the inaugural SpaceX Hyperloop Challenge (2016), we aim to achieve a similar feat by showcasing our new pod at the European Hyperloop Week 2024 (a global competition for student Hyperloop teams) and demonstrating the working of our design. As we would like innovative people in our team, who can push the boundaries of the Hyperloop concept, we will be holding inductions for the following subsystems.

1) Propulsion
2) Braking and Levitation
3) Electrical and Electronics
4) Software and Communication
5) Business Development.
Please check the Google form for further details on each subsystem and for applying.

Link: https://forms.gle/MzB9xpkDxmB2J8Mg6

Last date for application: 7th August 2023, 11:59 PM.

For any queries, you can contact the subsystem leads, whose contact details are in the form.

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

05/03/2023

Hey everyone!

We’re happy to announce that Hyperloop India has qualified for the final round of the European Hyperloop Week 2023 - Edinburgh, for the demonstration and the research categories. For the demonstration category, we have designed and will fabricate a pod capable of reaching speeds up to 150 kmph in an open environment. This has been made possible by our novel design of the propulsion subsystem that consists of highly optimized Linear Induction Motors, coupled with our non-contact levitation and braking and a minimal drag aero shell. For the research category of the competition, we will present methodologies that we have developed to design a highly efficient Double Sided Linear Induction Motor, which has become a key factor of our overall pod design.

We will continue pushing the boundaries of Hyperloop development through our innovative design solutions to problems that this fifth mode of transport faces.

See you soon, Edinburgh!

11/12/2022

Hello everyone!

We recently had the opportunity to deliver a talk at the National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR), Vadodara. We presented our contributions to the Hyperloop domain in India, technology in our current pod design for this year’s European Hyperloop Week and our future endeavors.

We thank the Indian Railways for inviting us and giving us the platform for interacting with other stakeholders in the Hyperloop domain and we look forward to more such conferences in the future.

28/08/2022

Hello everyone!

Hyperloop India is now recruiting first and higher degree students from all BITS campuses.

Being the first Indian team to participate in the finals of the inaugural SpaceX Hyperloop Challenge (2016), we aim to achieve a similar feat by showcasing our new pod at the European Hyperloop Week 2022 (a global competition for student Hyperloop teams) and demonstrating the working of our design. As we would like innovative people in our team, who can push the boundaries of the Hyperloop concept, we will be holding inductions for the following subsystems.

a) Mechanical
i) Propulsion
ii) Braking and Levitation
iii) Structures
iv)Aero
b) Electrical and Communication
c) Software and Electronics
d) Business Development.

Please check the google form for further details on each subsystem and for applying.

Form link: https://forms.gle/pupFMfk3YiokewhV9

Last date to apply is 7th Sept 2022.

Incase of any queries please reach out to:
Pranshu Vyas - 7887014056
Kalash Paripurnam - 7625013636
Arya Pathak - 7387244262

09/07/2022

Greetings everyone!

Hyperloop India is recruiting for the position of an Electrical and Communications Engineer. The role would last for a year with the possibility of switching to a leadership position in between.

Preferable year of study: BE 2nd or 3rd year, Dual degree 3rd and 4th year and ME 1st year.
Experience/Interest required in one or more of the following fields: Battery Management Systems, Induction Motors, Inverters, Sensor interfacing, CAN Bus, Control Systems, Power systems and LiFi based communication systems.

If interested, please fill the google form attached by 11th July 2022.

Link: https://forms.gle/aAEEXksCk6LP2N5cA

Note: Inductions for other positions would be held soon.

25/01/2022

We're delighted to announce that our hyperloop pod design has been selected to represent India at the final stage of the European Hyperloop Week's 2022 edition!
The team has put an enormous amount of effort into coming up with novel ideas for customized hyperloop tracks, methods of propulsion, and a prototype capable of being scaled up into an operable real-life pod.
Over the course of the next 6 months, we will be attempting to fine-tune our model, fixing all the chinks in the armor, and finally bring to a close what will hopefully be BITS' resurrection as a pioneer of innovation and transport technology after a long absence of 2 years at the global stage.
We would like to thank everyone on the team and outside, that has guided us and helped us realize the magnitude of results that our collective efforts can produce.
See you soon, Delft!

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30/05/2021

Shantanu Gaikwad and Nivedan Vishwanath of Hyperloop India had the chance to have a chat with Tanay Manjrekar on Hyperloop systems. Tanay Manjrekar is a power electronics specialist at Virgin Hyperloop at their DevLoop test site in Nevada. Tanay, who hails from Pune, Maharashtra, is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He joined Virgin Hyperloop in 2016 as an electrical engineering intern and worked his way up to the position he is in right now. He has been instrumental in developing Virgin’s Experimental-Pod-2 (XP-2) which made its maiden run in November 2020.
Tune in to listen to Tanay answer Shantanu and Nivedan’s exciting questions on the nitty-gritties of hyperloop systems. His success story, experiences at Virgin, and advice to the youth aspiring to contribute to exciting projects such as the Hyperloop have been captured masterfully in this 45-minute podcast.
This podcast was made possible by Pratik Kakade and Nitish Badu of BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, whose podcast “At a crossroads” allowed us to interact with Tanay. We at Hyperloop India thank them for their excellent initiative of providing a platform for such open-ended, intellectual, and articulate discussions.

Listen here:

Listen to this episode from At A Crossroads on Spotify. Tanay Manjrekar is a power electronics specialist and one of the first humans to ride the Virgin Hyperloop. The hyperloop is a mode of passenger and freight transportation that travels at breakneck speeds using contactless levitation and propul...

24/12/2020

The Hyperloop is a high-speed ground-based transportation system utilizing sealed tubes, with the aim of ultimately transporting passengers between metropolitan cities in efficiently designed autonomous capsules. In recent years, the design and development of sub-scale prototypes for these Hyperloop pods has set the foundation for realizing more practical and scalable pod architectures.

At Hyperloop India, we strive to make this ambition our very own and also branch out into various academic fields, something that our electronics team has tackled head-on. Over the course of the last year, they have published a research paper that focuses on:
1. Optimized Electronics Architecture
2. Independent Onboard Pose Estimation Algorithm
3. Robust Battery Management and Electrical System

This paper proposes a practical, power and space-optimized on-board electronics architecture, coupled with an end-to-end computationally efficient pose estimation algorithm. Considering the high energy density and discharge rate of onboard batteries, this work additionally presents a robust system for fault detection, protection and management of batteries, along with the design of the surrounding electrical system. Performance evaluation and verification of proposed algorithms and circuits have been carried out by software simulations using both Python and Simulink.

The authors of this paper are Nihal Singh, Jay Karhade, Ishika Bhattacharya, Prathamesh Saraf, Plava Kattamuri and Professor Alivelu Manga Parimi. Attached below is the hyperlink for the paper:

Hyperloop is a high-speed ground-based transportation system utilizing sealed tubes, with the aim of ultimately transporting passengers between metropolitan cities in efficiently designed autonomous capsules. In recent years, the design and development of sub-scale prototypes for these Hyperloop pod...

24/08/2020

A gentle reminder: All candidates are requested to submit their SOLUTION REPORTS for Recruitment by 23:59 24th Aug 2020 on the GOOGLE FORM attached in the mail. Late entries will NOT be allowed.

15/08/2020

A gentle reminder:
The recruitment form for Hyperloop India closes tomorrow, 16th August 2020 at 2359 hours.

09/08/2020

Greetings,

Hyperloop India is recruiting!

We were 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 to qualify for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod challenge in 2016 and among the only 2 from the nation to have made it to the competition finals till date.

Working on the fifth mode of transportation, we are constantly upgrading our Pod with newer technology and ideas. We are looking for team members; 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 ***(𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬)***in the field of Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics and Softwares who will carry the mantle of Hyperloop India forward. [ 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 ]

This is an opportunity for all Innovative minds and Hardworking souls to come together to bridge the gap between Imagination and Manifestation of dreams & ideas. Come forward and join us!

Fill in your details here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3deQ_KxMkZVrUIFWh5HybuOnPCjQpW3iXUyfj3ifL5S-XhQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎. We wish you success.

Feel free to reach out to us in case of any queries on Facebook or via call.
Contact details:
Shantanu Gaikwad- 9920146355
Pratik Madhan- 9893590115
Jay Karhade- 7719880001
Karthik Rangasai- 7893285449

25/04/2020

The COVID-19 lockdown has brought our cities to a standstill, with necessary restrictions on people’s movements and the stoppage of all transport services. As the world comes together to go beyond their call of duty in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, few of our team members have decided to rise up to the occasion and develop a solution to improve containment and exposure alerting efforts.

Our goal is to identify critical transmission zones, alert users, track symptoms and organise patient flow in Hospitals. We believe it is the need of the hour to ensure a well-managed information pipeline between all of the stakeholders involved in the current crisis and it is our aim to make this happen. Our efforts have just started catching the world’s attention, but we need your help to bring this to life!

We are looking for volunteers to join us from the following fields:
Android Developers (Front/ Backend), iOS Developers (Front/ Backend), Full-stack Web developers, Cloud architecture management, Human Resources, Legal (Compliance), Marketing & Outreach, Medical Advisors & Product Managers.

Share this in your network and we would love to have your support. If you wish to volunteer or collaborate, email us at [email protected] or reach out on WhatsApp (+91-8208213948).

Here’s our project page link on HWC:
https://helpwithcovid.com/projects/719-coco-corona-control-closed-loop-pandemic-management-system

A clearing house for projects and volunteers that want to help with the COVID-19 crisis