Hyperloop UPV – The Auran

Hyperloop UPV is a team of 50 students from UPV who are developing hyperloop technology and creating an innovative vehicle every year to compete in the European Hyperloop Week during the summer. Our ultimate goal is to develop technology that can be scaled to a real hyperloop capable of transporting people or goods in the future.

Over the years, we have designed and developed all the components of our vehicle, last year our vehicle had 3654 electrical components integrated and hand-soldered by ourselves.

We aim to continue innovating to create a faster and more energy-efficient vehicle that closely resembles a real hyperloop system.

Our latest vehicle developed at Hyperloop UPV is ‘Auran’, capable of levitating and moving without touching any surface within a tube-shaped infrastructure. With this vehicle, we were the most awarded team at European Hyperloop Week, the international hyperloop competition where more than 30 universities exchange hyperloop technology knowledge.

This year, we have ambitious objectives, including increasing the speed of our vehicle, implementing vacuum technology in the tube, and improving our levitation system.

For this year’s aims, the electrical system takes a very important place. We must be able to control every part of the vehicle while it is inside of the infrastructure. That is why our engineers have been designing all the circuits to perform the various electronics tasks in the vehicle.

Thanks to our partnership with Eurocircuits our designs have been brought to real life. They have supported us with the PCBs that allow us to control the levitation and the traction of our vehicle, LCU (Levitation Control Unit) and the PCU (Propulsion Control Unit). We have also used the Eurocircuits PCBs for the power electronic boards, the LPU (Levitation Power Unit) and the PPU (Propulsion Power Unit).

We would like to highlight some of the best features of the control PCBs. This year we are going to send commands to the vehicle by ethernet communications and the Eurocircuits PCBs have defined impedance that allow us to send them easily. We would also like to give importance to the surface finish of the board, which is very useful for soldering the integrated components with very small packages.

Thanks to our cooperation with Eurocircuits we can have the best quality PCBs in our vehicle. We are looking forward to working with them again.