Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Students’ Hyperloop Team Avishkar has emerged among the top three teams globally in certain technical categories at the recently-held European Hyperloop Week 2023 (EHW). Team Avishkar stands as the only non-European team to be nominated in several award categories in this competition.

The EHW 2023 is an annual international event that enables university students, guest speakers, and companies to discuss Hyperloop technology, feasibility and scalability of the Hyperloop. University Hyperloop teams present their prototype components and full pods to a technical jury and compete in several categories.

Around 23 participants from various institutions across the world qualified for the final rounds of this competition hosted this year by the University of Edinburgh.

Team Avishkar Hyperloop team finished in the global top three for the category of ‘Full Scale Socio-Economic Aspects of Hyperloop,’ showcasing their extensive research on the estimated energy consumption and ticket pricing model of a typical Hyperloop corridor. The students achieved a prominent position in the Global Top five in the ‘Guidance’ category, providing compelling evidence for the viability of their on-pod Levitation systems. The team’s exceptional in-house designs of the sensor and embedded systems led to their attainment of a Global Top six position in the ‘Sense and Control Systems’ category.

Mr. Siddhant Patole, Student Team Lead, Team Avishkar Hyperloop, IIT Madras, said, “Having been granted several patents on Hyperloop technology, the team is pushing itself forward to build a 350 km-long Hyperloop corridor between Chennai and Bangalore that could bring down the travel time to just 30 minutes. We are looking at a timeline of developing India’s first Hyperloop corridor in the next two decades – with the first step being on-going construction of the upcoming 400m long Hyperloop test facility at IIT Madras. The team is also planning to publish several of their papers over the course of time. We have made the full-scale research papers available online at our website so that our knowledge on the Hyperloop technology is spread across India, and the world.”

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