Automated vehicle for railway track fault detection

[摘要] For the safety reasons, railroad tracks need to be inspected on a regular basis for detecting physical defects or design non compliances. Such track defects and non compliances, if not detected in a certain interval of time, may eventually lead to severe consequences such as train derailments. Inspection must happen twice weekly by a human inspector to maintain safety standards as there are hundreds and thousands of miles of railroad track. But in such type of manual inspection, there are many drawbacks that may result in the poor inspection of the track, due to which accidents may cause in future. So to avoid such errors and severe accidents, this automated system is designed.Such a concept would surely introduce automation in the field of inspection process of railway track and can help to avoid mishaps and severe accidents due to faults in the track.

[发布机构] School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu; 632104, India^1

[效力级别] 工业技术

[关键词] Automated systems;Automated vehicles;Human inspectors;Inspection process;Manual inspection;Physical defects;Severe accident;Train derailment