HyperXite
Background
Established in 2015, HyperXite is a team of undergraduate students endeavoring to build a Hyperloop pod.
HyperXite has competed in the past four SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competitions. In the SpaceX Competition I, HyperXite was one of the semifinalists and placed fifth for their overall design worldwide. Additionally, the HyperXite pod was one of the only air-levitated pods to be tested within the Hyperloop itself during Competition II and placed in the Top 6. In the past two competitions, HyperXite was one of the top 22 finalists to attend the competition in Hawthorne, CA.
This year, HyperXite will be attending the European Hyperloop Week, a Hyperloop competition established in 2020, and will build a small-scale pod to compete in the Netherlands during the summer of 2022.
Goal
HyperXite’s goal is to research, design, build and validate a scalable self-propelled pod to demonstrate the feasibility of Hyperloop design concepts at a high pace of innovation.
Objectives
- Real-time pod behavior monitoring
- Pod state data logging for comparison against models
- Complete a safe pod run on the test track
Team Contacts
Project Manager: Christine Tran <trancm3@uci.edu>
Chief Engineer: Karan Patel <kaushahp@uci.edu>
Electronic Systems Engineer: Beverly Ortiz-Ramirez <bortizra@uci.edu>
Team Advisor
Professor Roger Rangel <rhrangel@uci.edu>
Website
Questions?
Email us at ucihyperxite@gmail.com!