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AGENDA Hyperloop

• Hyperloop Competition

• Competition Team

• Team
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• Sensor Data Sensor Data

• Actuation
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• Communication
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• Conclusion
• Questions Conclusion

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 INTRODUCTION Hyperloop

• Celeste Bean Competition

• Connor Buckland Team

• Ben Hartl
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• Cameron McCarthy Board

• Connor Mulcahey Sensor Data

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 HYPERLOOP Hyperloop

• Cities < 700 miles apart Competition

• Max speed of 760 mph Team

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 HYPERLOOP Hyperloop

• Depressurized steel tube Competition

• Magnetic levitation Team

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 COMPETITION Hyperloop

• Organized by Elon Musk and SpaceX Competition

• Design and build a proof of concept pod Team

• Compete in Summer 2016 on 1-mile long track

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COMPETITION Hyperloop

Competition

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 DESIGN WEEKEND Hyperloop

• 1200 original applicants Competition

• 1 of 120 teams invited to Design Weekend at Texas A&M Team

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 DESIGN WEEKEND Hyperloop

• 1 of 30 teams admitted to the final stage of the competition Competition

• Few teams with a Computer Engineering Team Team

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UCSB TEAM Hyperloop

Competition

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 UCSB TEAM Hyperloop

• 23 undergraduate students Competition

• Computer Engineering Team

• Computer Science
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• Mechanical Engineering Board

• Electrical Engineering Sensor Data

• Physics
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• Economics
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 UCSB TEAM Hyperloop

• $50,000 budget raised from donors, crowd funding, and UCSB Competition

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 UCSB TEAM Hyperloop

• Length: 14’ (4.3m); Width: 3’5” (1.0m); Height: 3’4” (1.0m) Competition

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 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD Hyperloop

• 8.1” x 8.1” printed circuit board Competition

• (2) ARM Cortex-M4 Team

microcontrollers Printed Circuit

• 430 components Board

• Designed for flexibility Sensor Data

• Sensor Data Actuation

• Telemetry & communication Communication

• Actuation Conclusion

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 SENSOR DATA Hyperloop

• Must report: Competition

• 3D position, velocity, and acceleration Team

• Roll, pitch, and yaw Printed Circuit

• Temperature Board

• Pressure Sensor Data

• Power consumption Actuation

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 NAVIGATION SYSTEM Hyperloop

• Find position, velocity, and acceleration Competition

• The tube has reflective strips every 100’

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 NAVIGATION SYSTEM Hyperloop

• Photoelectric sensor detects strips Competition

• 2 inertial accelerometer determine position between strips

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• Velocity compared to hard-coded profile for safety
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 ATTITUDE SYSTEM Hyperloop

• Find roll, pitch, and yaw Competition

• 4 short ranging sensors on the bottom for roll and pitch Team
• 4 long ranging sensors on the sides for yaw
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 SENSOR LOCATIONS Hyperloop

Competition
• Photoelectric sensors (2) – navigation
• Long ranging sensors (4) – data acquisition
• Short ranging sensors (4) – stability Team
• System Circuit Board
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 BATTERY MANAGEMENT Hyperloop

• Detects battery packs’ voltage levels Competition

• Issues alerts is voltage is too low or high Team

• Determines current draw to calculate power consumption
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 MAGNETIC LEVITATION Hyperloop

• Controls 6 Arx Pax H3.0 magnetic levitation engines Competition

• Interface with motors via ASi BAC motor controller Team

• Programmable via ASi BACDoor software
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• Motor speed controlled using analog 0 – 5 V signal Board

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 TRANSIT ACTUATION Hyperloop

• Raises and lowers the pod to various heights to levitate or rest upon wheels Competition

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 TRANSIT ACTUATION Hyperloop

• Motor activates service propulsion wheel to move pod through tube Competition

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 BRAKE ACTUATION Hyperloop

• Air valve actuates eddy current braking system Competition

• Rotates the magnetic arrays Team

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Eddy current braking for high speed Friction brakes to come to full stop
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 BRAKE ACTUATION Hyperloop

• Air valve actuates secondary friction brakes Competition

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 EMERGENCY PROTOCOL Hyperloop

• Emergency state activated by: Competition

• Emergency pod stop command Team

• Large deviations in velocity profile
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• Protocol Board

• Engage eddy current brakes

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• Engage frictional brakes at lower speeds
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• Disengage brakes once pod stop completed
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• Disengage magnetic levitation engines
• Use linear actuator to activate service propulsion wheels Conclusion

• Engage service propulsion motor until tube exit completed

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 COMMUNICATION Hyperloop

• Must communicate sensor data once per second Competition

• SpaceX provides a Network Access Panel (NAP) that provides wireless Team
network access
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• Ethernet module on printed circuit Board
board sends data
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 NETWORKING APPLICATION Hyperloop

• Developed secure Competition

application level
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protocol
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• Displays and logs Board
sensor data
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• Sends control
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messages
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 CODE ARCHITECTURE Hyperloop

• Managed a git repository for version control Competition

• Ensures that code remains clean Team

• Avoids merge conflicts Printed Circuit

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 CONCLUSION Hyperloop

• Thank you to Dr. John Johnson and Will Miller Competition

• Thank you to Elon Musk and SpaceX Team

• Thank you to our generous sponsors Printed Circuit

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Jonathan Siegel Tilt Contributors

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