{"id":38271,"date":"2016-04-15T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/?p=38271"},"modified":"2017-01-17T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:52:11","slug":"hyperloop-competition-receives-big-lift-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/hyperloop-competition-receives-big-lift-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperloop Competition Receives a Big Lift from SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you did a timeline of all the major Elon Musk announcements in the last five years, it would have a lot circles on the X axis. One circle would include the Hyperloop white paper.<\/p>\n<p>Musk \u201cdropped\u201d off the concept to the world back in 2013 and moved on. However, last year Musk and SpaceX introduced a Hyperloop pod competition for college students to take place at SpaceX\u2019s test track in August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Most Elon Musk devotees probably know a bit about the Hyperloop white paper released in 2013 and how this \u201cfifth mode\u201d of transport offers a low-cost solution versus high-speed rail proposals floating around the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-ad\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4672671650557568\" data-ad-slot=\"7845413937\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Hyperloop concept from Musk involves a low-pressurized air tube structure \u2014 say from San Francisco to LA \u2014 and propels passengers in a \u201cpod\u201d compartment at speeds of more than 700+ mph. The pod shoots through this low-pressure tube with induction motors intermittently placed in the track that moves the compartment. These motors \u201cwould provide a reboost roughly every 70 miles,\u201d according to the paper.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-sea-barge\/\" target=\"_blank\">seeing SpaceX land a rocket on a tiny barge in the ocean<\/a>, this doesn\u2019t seem so far-fetched. Companies like Hyperloop Technologies and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies are currently working on proof-of-concepts and test tracks.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2016, SpaceX held the Hyperloop Pod design competition at Texas A&amp;M and evaluated more than 124 concepts, which included best overall concept and innovation. Thirty plus university teams were picked to move on to competition weekend at SpaceX\u2019s Hawthorne facility, where a mile long test track \u2014 six foot in diameter steel tube \u2014 is being built.<\/p>\n<p>The MIT Hyperloop team won the best Overall Design Award while the Pod Innovation Award went to the Delft Univ. of Technology in the Netherlands. The event also awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerloop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BadgerLoop<\/a>, from the Univ. of Wisconsin, with the 3rd place and the Pod Technical Excellence award.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38286\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38286\" class=\"wp-image-38286 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop006.jpg\" alt=\"1604bloop006\" width=\"550\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop006.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop006-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BadgerLoop&#8217;s pod will reach speeds of up to 200+ mph in a matter of 15 seconds with a run lasting approximately 43 seconds.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Being based in Chicago, I reached out to the BadgerLoop team in March and interviewed multiple members of the team, including a\u00a0Co-President, the Electrical and Controls Manager and, of course with Hyperloop, the team\u2019s Levitation Lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teslarati:<\/strong> So how many students are on the BadgerLoop team?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Van Veen, Operations Director:<\/strong> We have a 150 dedicated members helping in all aspects related to the competition and have about 75 student engineers working on the pod project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brett Sjostrom, Co-President:<\/strong> We have something special with this team, we\u2019ve been engineering students for three or four years and BadgerLoop is going up against teams with much more experience. The MIT Hyperloop team is made up of graduate students and some of those folks interned at NASA, SpaceX and Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>The aluminum sub track in Hawthorne will be flat and this allows the BadgerLoop team to move past the air bearings concept from Musk\u2019s white paper. BadgerLoop is implementing a Halbach Arrays concept.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sjostrom:<\/strong> Halbach arrays are a certain configuration of magnets that amplify the magnetic field on one side, and negate it on the other side of the array. Passing this array over the aluminum sub track creates eddy currents which give our pod its levitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teslarati:<\/strong> How does your Hypeloop pod differ from other teams?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Veen:<\/strong> Other teams are using passive Halbach arrays which provide just vertical levitation but there\u2019s no forward propulsion to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Carpenter, Levitation Lead:<\/strong> Our design creates drag from the levitation but by spinning the wheels \u2014 using drag \u2014 in the opposite direction, we can create thrust to move the pod forward. Our pod has a total of ten Halbach Array wheels, four in the front and back, and two in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s negating our drag and providing a truly frictionless ride. It&#8217;s also providing that contactless stability in all directions. Plus, it\u2019s an active system so we can control it, speed it up or slow it down.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38289\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38289\" class=\"wp-image-38289\" title=\"BadgerLoop's Halbach arrays on a wheel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop003-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"BadgerLoop's Halbach arrays on a wheel\" width=\"325\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop003-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop003.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s an example of BadgerLoop&#8217;s Halbach arrays on a wheel. The configuration of magnets amplifies the magnetic field on one side, and negate it on the other side of the array. Passing this array over the aluminum sub track creates eddy currents, which produces the pod&#8217;s levitation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obviously, stability is important with a $150 million test track located next to the company\u2019s headquarters. Most of SpaceX competition specifications for a test run involve many safety hurdles to actually get on the track in August.<\/p>\n<p>According to Badgerloop, these pods will reach speeds of up to 200+ mph in a matter of 15 seconds with a run lasting approximately 43 seconds. That\u2019s why BadgerLoop\u2019s pod will have more than 140 sensors on board for real-time safety data and avoid overheating motors and other components.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teslarati:<\/strong> Can you provide an overview of your pod controls and sensors?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Amikam, Electrical Team Lead:<\/strong> Our pod will have 114 sensors. These include proximity sensors for between the pod and the rail, acceleration and gyroscopic data. We&#8217;re also taking in almost 50 different temperature points that create a full, live thermal heat map of our pod.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teslarati:<\/strong> Why so much thermal sensing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Amikam:<\/strong> We&#8217;re in a vacuum and don&#8217;t have the benefit of convective heating like you normally do, so we have to make sure that everything is very thermally regulated. We have a variety of thermistors placed all throughout the pod and it goes to one central location. We can look at our dashboards in the middle of a run.<\/p>\n<p>If one of our motors is getting dangerously hot and we don&#8217;t want to break that motor, we can just shut it off remotely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Amikam:<\/strong> In a couple months here, we will have a full simulation from dynamic model via CANalyzer from Vector &#8212; Tesla Motors uses the using the same software. The simulation allows us to infer \u201cover the course of these 42 seconds, here&#8217;s what all of the sensors should see.&#8221; Then, we&#8217;ll fake all that data in our CAN bus, at the hardware level, and see how the system reacts. From there, and we can fine tune it, debug, test out our fault codes and start up sequences.<\/p>\n<h2>Sort of a Big Deal (Not Ron Burgundy)<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, meeting the International Man of Action, Elon Musk, was a bonus for Co-President Sjostrom and Tieler Callazo during the Design competition at Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lead SpaceX Hyperloop engineer appears on stage and says there\u2019s been a recent hashtag on Twitter about where\u2019s Elon. And we\u2019d like to answer that question,\u201d says Sjostrom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38290\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38290\" class=\"wp-image-38290 size-full\" title=\"An early look at BadgerLoop's pod at the Univ. of Wisconsin.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop005.jpg\" alt=\"An early look at BadgerLoop's pod at the Univ. of Wisconsin.\" width=\"286\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop005.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1604bloop005-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early look at BadgerLoop&#8217;s pod at the Univ. of Wisconsin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then, Elon Musk walks out.<\/p>\n<p>The top four teams\u2019 presidents were able to meet with Elon Musk one-on-one and discuss their pod designs. \u201cWe were waiting for Musk to finish his conversation and all the other team presidents were just repeating, \u2018We get to meet Elon Musk, this is awesome.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sjostrom adds \u201cMusk thought it was pretty impressive that the top four teams were doing magnetic levitation and the first Hyperloop would probably be a wheeled vehicle, just like a proof of concept.<\/p>\n<p>BadgerLoop is building the aluminum pod as the semester winds down and hopes to start integrating the different sub-systems and apply the carbon fiber skin in May. The team is utilizing workplace Slack software to help organize and oversee 40 members on the electrical team, for example. BadgerLoop will have to rely on remote collaboration as some team members graduate in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegular students go to bed and we keep working,\u201d says Van Veen. \u201cThe only issue is when do we sleep. That\u2019s probably our biggest challenge to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Musk is preparing the students for careers at Tesla Motors, SpaceX or Hyperloop.<\/p>\n<p><em>* All the <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperloop.tamu.edu\/news-release-january-30-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperloop college teams<\/a> are looking for funding as this is a capital intensive project. You can donate to BadgerLoop by <a href=\"https:\/\/badgerloop.com\/fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\">visiting this page<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you did a timeline of all the major Elon Musk announcements in the last five years, it would have a lot circles on the X axis. One circle would include the Hyperloop white paper. Musk \u201cdropped\u201d off the concept to the world back in 2013 and moved on. 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