On-board Electrical, Electronics and Pose Estimation System for Hyperloop Pod Design

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. This paper proposes a practical, power and space optimized on-board electronics architecture, coupled with an end-to-end computationally efficient p ose e stimation algorithm. Considering the high energy density and discharge rate of on-board 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 o f p roposed a lgorithms a nd circuits has been carried out by software simulations using both Python and Simulink.