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Future of travel: India's OrcaPod
August 28, 2017 08:46 IST
The OrcaPod is a prototype of what comes after boats, cars, trains and planes.
It's India's foray into what Tesla founder Elon
Musk calls the 'fifth form of transportation' and
India's only entry at the Hyperloop competition by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Nikita Puri finds out how a team of students made it so far.
OrcaPod Hyyperloop SpaceX Elon Musk
IMAGE: The OrcaPod unveiled.
It was built by students from different parts of
India at a makerspace in Bengaluru, after '1.5
years of research and design followed by 2.5
months of intense prototyping, manufacturing and coffee consumption.'
Lead photographs: Kind courtesy
@teamhyperloopindia/Facebook and Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
At a do-it-yourself makerspace called Workbench
Projects in Bengaluru, Anupama Gowda's days are
packed with back-to-back meetings and telephone
calls. A few days ago, Gowda, the co-founder of
Workbench, received an unnerving call.
On the other end of the line was Sibesh Kar, a
student at the Birla Institute of Technology &
Science (BITS), Pilani, who has spent this past summer at Workbench.
Kar's call came when he was at Bengaluru airport,
telling Gowda that "the shipping service has declined to send the pod".
Gowda immediately withdrew from her meetings and
straightaway got back on the phone.
It was going to be a long weekend.
This "pod" they were talking about needed to be
in California in the next few days.
The stakes of it not reaching in time were so
high that they refused to acknowledge that was even a possibility.
The pod is a blue and white prototype of what
comes after boats, cars, trains and planes.
It's India's foray into what billionaire inventor
Elon Musk calls the 'fifth form of transportation'.
Named OrcaPod, owing to its likeness to the
largest, toothed-whale of the dolphin family, in
theory, this vessel is designed to reach up to
"half the speed of sound". That's about 300 miles per hour.
The OrcaPod is the result of an open competition
that Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX, announced in June 2015.
SpaceX invited students to build pods that could
travel through a vacuum tube at supersonic speeds.
A truly ambitious project, such tunnel-tubes and
pods could prove to be a viable public
transportation system. Hyperloop, a mix of a
'Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table,'
as Musk describes it, is the next best thing to 'real teleportation'.
OrcaPod Hyyperloop SpaceX Elon Musk
IMAGE: The OrcaPod is designed to reach up to
"half the speed of sound". That's about 300 miles per hour.
Photograph: Kind courtesy @teamhyperloopindia/Facebook
Between August 25 and 27, student-driven teams
from across the world tested their pods at the
six-foot high and mile-long track built at Hawthorne, California.
Among the 24 teams that have made it this far are
Keio Alpha from Tokyo's Keio University,
Swissloop from ETH Zurich, Zurich and UMD Loop
from the University of Maryland, Maryland.
The first of these competitions took place
earlier this year, albeit without any participation from India.
This time round, a team led by Kar, and their
OrcaPod, has qualified and made it to the venue just in time.
One of the largest pods in the competition
(4x1x1m), OrcaPod is currently one-fourth of what it can be scaled up to.
New York to Washington in 29 minutes, Los Angeles
to San Francisco in 36 minutes, and Delhi to
Mumbai in 60 minutes -- estimations such as these
are rife in every conversation and news report
ever since Hyperloop has risen out of research
papers and taken a more conceivable form.
Though ideas for futuristic transport can be
traced back to American physicist Robert
Goddard's designs for vactrain (very-high-speed
rail transportation) in 1904, the world has found
a renewed interest in it after Musk published a white paper in 2013.
(In this research paper, Musk urged entrepreneurs
and engineers to take up the mantle for building
Hyperloop. This call has been answered by a
handful of companies, including Los Angeles-based
Hyperloop One, which is also one of Hyperloop India's sponsors.)
As many on the team say, the "fun part" about
this project was also perhaps the hardest bit: Research.
There's no handbook on Hyperloop or a dependable
Google search to instruct you on building a pod that can travel up to 460 kmph.
"There's nothing that tells you 'this will work, this will fail'," says Kar.
"It's scary when you think of how you're
representing the country in something that hasn't
been done before," says Arjun Ashoka, the lone
student on the team from St Xavier's, Mumbai.
"Besides, as students, none of us can actually
comprehend the amount of money that has gone into this."
OrcaPod Hyyperloop SpaceX Elon Musk Rakesh Sharma
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Photograph: Kind courtesy @teamhyperloopindia/Facebook
The project is estimated to have cost up to 90
lakh -- 36 lakh of this came from the team's
crowdfunding campaign on
<http://ketto.org/>Ketto.org, an online
fundraising Web site; the rest flowed in through corporate sponsorship.
OrcaPod also saw industry partners lending a
helping hand pro bono, like Starline Packers that
swooped in at the last minute to help out with
the packaging of the pod as it waited at
Bengaluru airport after the previous arrangement fell flat.
Similarly, if Harish Palani, managing director at
Ripple Technologies, had charged for his
engineering and manufacturing services, he could
have billed the team anywhere between 18 lakh and
25 lakh. He charged them nothing.
"These young minds should know that they have
support to do what they want in this country," says Palani.
"Besides, these guys would work till late in the
night, then turn up early morning the next day.
I'm hoping my engineers would have learnt
something after seeing this kind of passion," he adds, laughing.
Jitendra Davda, director of Miracle Electronic
Devices, an exporter of transformers and cable
harnesses, was already sold on the idea of Hyperloop.
So, when he received a proposal from the India
team about helping it put its electric and
electronic systems in place, Davda became its technical mentor.
Such students are the answer to the "large gap"
that exists between what educational institutes
teach and what the industry really wants, he feels.
But not everyone was as welcoming as Davda or Palani.
Many had their doubts about Hyperloop India
because all they saw was a bunch of students with an idea.
No one, not even some on the team, had thought that they'd get this far.
These doubts continued up until the pod actually began taking shape.
Though they had a design approved by SpaceX, all
that they really had was a 250-page document of a highly unorthodox idea.
Not even a prototype of such a grandiose experiment existed in the past.
"Those we had approached for financial support
earlier came on board when we actually started
building the pod," says Prithvi Sankar, a BITS
student and business development lead of the project.
In quest of an ecosystem where this fledgling of
a concept could survive, the team sent out
feelers all around. Bengaluru was most receptive
to something as exploratory as Hyperloop, recalls Sankar.
One of their first inroads into this supportive
ecosystem was gathering at Gowda's Workbench Projects.
OrcaPod Hyyperloop SpaceX Elon Musk
IMAGE: A recovery vehicle moves a test sled down
a track after the first test of the propulsion
system at the Hyperloop One Test and Safety site in Nevada in May 2016.
The company plans to create a fully operational Hyperloop system by 2020.
Photograph: David Becker/Getty Images
Here, a little away from 3D printers and tools
for woodwork is five-year-old Darren, still in his uniform after school hours.
As he waits for his father to finish up a
do-it-yourself wood polishing project, Darren is
trying to fix his own electric toy car.
"See, these wires have come out. The wheel is
also not moving. I have to fix this," he says.
It's only coincidental that OrcaPod's designs
first began to take shape at Workbench, which is
located under the Halasuru Metro Station.
The metro, after all, will seem like a relic of
the past, like trams, once the futuristic
Hyperloop comes into play, perhaps by the time
Darren's generation comes of age.
Sitting here, Gowda recalls how these students
have come really a long way: From working on a
paper to actually facing the hardship of hardware
far from the cocooned life colleges offer.
"Team work is their biggest learning," says Gowda.
Over 60 students have worked on this.
The team in itself has dramatically changed since inception.
When Kar first applied for the competition, there were only five of them.
After their design was approved and shortlisted
among 120 applicants last year, they needed a
larger team to ensure that they had in-depth
knowledge of the different sub-systems that this pod would require.
Like an organism seeking out the best for
survival, the team expanded its search for
candidates beyond the three BITS Pilani campuses,
and announced a pan-India recruitment drive for the project.
Kar received over 800 applicants.
With students from colleges such as the National
Institute of Design, Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad, RV Institutions, Indian
School of Business and more, the project left behind the avatar it was born in.
It was no longer BITS Hyperloop, but instead, Hyperloop India.
Many bowed out on the way here.
In fact, Kar is the only one from the team that kickstarted this dream.
"It's understandable. Even small start-ups offer
remuneration or stock options; I didn't have anything to offer them," he says.
OrcaPod Hyyperloop SpaceX Elon Musk
IMAGE: Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX,
tries out a pod in January 2017 -- at the
previous SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition in
Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California.
Photograph: Monica Almeida/Reuters
It's become worth the commitment to those who've stayed on.
Irrespective of what happens in California, these
students have become part of a historic
milestone, and have gone where no Indian has gone before.
They've worked for the ringside seat to see the future of transportation.
(In India, NITI Aayog has cleared six proposals
for high-tech transport, and this includes
Hyperloop. The government has been approached by
companies to explore Hyperloop possibilities, but
nothing concrete has materialised yet.)
Before India's OrcaPod runs on the track in
California, it'll have to pass through a rigorous
battery of tests that range from inspections to
check the structural integrity of the pod to a vacuum chamber examination.
In the first competition, only three out of 27
teams qualified to try out the track. As the
tests for the second competition began, it was
comforting to know that OrcaPod has already had a
taste of the vacuum chamber at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's facility.
Musk has made it clear that his sci-fi dream is
to build tunnels for Hyperloop along America's Eastern seaboard.
He recently tweeted he had 'received verbal govt approval' for this.
The 'prize' for the competition remains undisclosed.
Even if non-Americans win the competition, they
aren't eligible to work with SpaceX owing to US government regulations.
"For us this is about validating our proof of concept," says Sankar.
The opportunity of trying out SpaceX's track
really translates into "a platform to get started
with something new," adds Kar.
"You win a competition, you lose a competition,
it doesn't really matter that much. But it's
useless if you don't do something that adds value," he asserts.
Besides, the team feels working for this
competition has helped it lay the groundwork for
a research and development centre to help with India's Hyperloop dreams.
The first time the competition happened, the
criteria included scalability as well as speed.
This time it's about speed alone.
"But the fastest pod may not necessarily mean
that it can be scaled up for mass transport, and
that's something we'd really like to work on," says Kar.
While some teams are considering the air
propulsion method to get their pods moving,
others are using jet engines. Hyperloop India is
experimenting with linear electric motors for propulsion.
It'll take decades before Hyperloop can actually
revolutionise mass transport, but Kar's team has
ensured greater hope for the time when Darren's generation grows up.
For now, India's dreams continue to be propelled by the fins of an Orca.
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