  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 pose
estimation 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 of
proposed algorithms and circuits has been carried out by software simulations
using both Python and Simulink.
