Joint research and development of D-ITET and Swissloop results in award winning linear induction motor
For his Master’s thesis Christopher Timperio developed a high-speed linear induction motor, supervised by Jasmin Smajic from the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF). With Smajic’s advice, Swissloop’s Nicolas Marchal and Samuel Sadok built upon Christopher’s work and designed a new motor for the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition in LA. Not only did the team achieve second place in the overall competition, the impressive new motor design also won them an innovation award from Elon Musk.
The LIM1 prototype was completely financed by D-ITET, and the LIM2 prototype was partially financed by IEF and its head Prof. Juerg Leuthold. Jasmin Smajic is very grateful for the financial support and proud of the achievement of the Swissloop team this year.
Read his personal report on how the team managed to overcome several difficulties to make the motor performant and to pave the way for the success at the Hyperloop competition 2019:
DownloadSimulation Based Development of the Hyperloop Innovation Award Winning Linear Motor (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Congratulations to the team!