Monitoring of Combustion Locomotive State with the Use of an On-board Device

This paper presents the current state of the research on the on-board recording system application for the detection of critical situations in railways. The estimation of the rail vehicle state is based on signals registered by using a specialized on-board device. The critical situation of a rail vehicle can consist of diesel locomotive engine dysfunctions, high vibrations, exceeding of limit velocity, acceleration or inclination. The monitoring of the vehicle state needs a set of sensors. The movement parameters are acquired from a global positioning system (GPS) device, accelerometers and gyroscopic microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS). Especially interesting here is the application of GPS signals, because GPS not only gives a geographical position, but also the vehicle velocity. The accelerometer sensors which measured the acceleration in three perpendicular directions were assigned to operate together with GPS in order to establish the vehicle position and for the detection of exceeding any limit acceleration value. The gyroscopic MEMS sensors support the position and route detection and also show any exceeding in vehicle limit inclinations. Additionally, some accelerate sensors record the vibroacoustic signals taken from chosen places on the engine body or other vehicle parts for the assessment of the engine state, particularly in terms of potential failures. The analysis of the additional acceleration signals was performed using specialized signal processing methods and some specialized algorithms based on artificial intelligence (e.g. Fourier analysis, wavelets, nonlinear methods based on deterministic chaos theory, short time methods and support vector machines). The first results are promising and show the possibility of using the above described approach to detect the combustion locomotive state.

• Summary URL:
  • https://doi.org//10.2495/CR140261
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  • http://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-the-built-environment/135/27082
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from WIT Press.
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• Authors:
  • Boguś, P
  • Merkisz, J
  • Grzeszczyk, R
• Conference:
  • 14th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Optimization (COMPRAIL 2014)
  • Location: Rome , Italy
  • Date: 2014-6-24 to 2014-6-26
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: Computers in Railways XIV. Railway Engineering Design and Optimization
• Serial:
  • WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
  • Volume: 135
  • Publisher: Wessex Institute of Technology
  • ISSN: 1743-3509
  • Serial URL: http://library.witpress.com/pages/listBooks.asp?tID=2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accelerometers; Artificial intelligence; Global Positioning System; Locomotives; Monitoring; Sensors; Vehicle electronics
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01552634
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781845647667
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 2 2015 10:27AM