controlling the locomotion of railway inspection vehicle wirelessly

A standard rail essential line can have lots of miles of track circuits run for signaling and for track integrity/continuity detection (i.e., detecting a break inside the song). To date, wheel detectors, and most other styles

Project Title

controlling the locomotion of railway inspection vehicle wirelessly

Project Area of Specialization

Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Project Summary

A standard rail essential line can have lots of miles of track circuits run for signaling and for track integrity/continuity detection (i.e., detecting a break inside the song). To date, wheel detectors, and most other styles of sensors, need to be furnished with electrical modern and related to a controller or another form of processing hardware to utilize the abilities of the sensors. In an average rail backyard, many masses of yards of wiring need to be run from the numerous sensors to control or record processing hardware to enforce a rail backyard monitoring system. Such wiring substantially increases the set up and maintenance expenses for such a system.

A novel approach in detection of the railway track flaws using image processing and automated track recording vehicle such as squats and frogs that are uneasy to detect from the conventional methodology of inertial measurement units is proposed. The main problem about a railway analysis is detection of cracks in the railway track. If these deficiencies are not controlled at early stages they might lead to a number of derailments resulting in a heavy loss of life and property. This project proposes a cost effective solution to the problem of railway track crack. The proposed work focuses on controlling the locomotion of inspection vehicle wirelessly. This inspection vehicle will not create any environmental pollution, and our project will ensure safety of the passengers as railway is our local transportation system and travelling through it is affordable by common people thus making railway, a reliable transportation system. Our product  is  cost, size and energy efficient in its design. We use IoT based platform like Thing Speak & AWS to accurately manage the faults. Total costs falls under $500.

Project Objectives

• The main aim is to design a vehicle which can be suitable for the smaller railway industries and can perform typical track fault detections.
• To interface with cloud platform to accurately demonstrate the faults and address them remotely.
•  To optimize the parameters like size, cost, energy with respect to our industry.
• Controlling DC motor wirelessly.
• Online Inspection of obstacle using IOT.
• Online track damage detection using canny edge detection.
• Embedded system-based prototype development and direct solution delivery for our local railway industry.

Project Implementation Method

• We are going to utilize wooden frame for this vehicle because it is light weight and cost efficient.
•  For propulsion, we will use DC motors and control using PID controllers.
• Model based algorithm that can locomote our inspection vehicle efficiently.
• Use of Python-based algorithms for analyzing the efficiency of the dc motor data used in inspection vehicle.
• For wireless connectivity we will use Wi-Fi Module.
•  IoT platform (Thing Speak) will be used to utilize cloud services.
• We will be placing camera for real time monitoring.

Benefits of the Project

Automated inspection has provided an objective method for the evaluation of track conditions that has contributed to the decrease the derailments rates. Track inspector used to maintain detailed records about the condition of railroad tracks, submit maintenance requests when necessary, monitor the operation of signal and crossing equipment, and prepare reports. This needs huge human effort and time and as humans are more prone to error so this gives the  primary benefit of  inspection vehicle that is to save time and labor  when compared to doing manual inspections of track.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final product will be hardware system as the wooden frame with tires and it will be compiled by a software. All of this will be controlled through microcontroller wirelessly using arduino UNO. The motor driver module will get voltage through it and will control dc motors, which will in turn control the movement of tires. The data will be taken in real time and then sent to the cloud via ThingSpeak..

Final Deliverable of the Project

Hardware System

Core Industry

Transportation

Other Industries

IT

Core Technology

Internet of Things (IoT)

Other Technologies

Artificial Intelligence(AI)

Sustainable Development Goals

Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Required Resources

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