On-Board Condition Monitoring System for Freight Trains

Author(s):  
John Donelson ◽  
Wayne M. Zavis ◽  
S. K. (John) Punwani ◽  
Monique Ferguson Stewart ◽  
Mark C. Edwards

Abstract Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Wilcoxon Research have developed a real-time on-board condition monitoring system for freight trains. The Office of Research and Development of the Federal Railroad Administration funded the development of the system. The system monitors bearings, wheels, trucks and brakes on freight trains in order to detect equipment defects and derailments. The objectives of the system are to improve railroad safety and operation efficiency through continuous monitoring of mechanical components on freight trains.

Author(s):  
Ting-Chi Yeh ◽  
Min-Chun Pan

When rotary machines are running, acousto-mechanical signals acquired from the machines are able to reveal their operation status and machine conditions. Mechanical systems under periodic loading due to rotary operation usually respond in measurements with a superposition of sinusoids whose frequencies are integer (or fractional integer) multiples of the reference shaft speed. In this study we built an online real-time machine condition monitoring system based on the adaptive angular-velocity Vold-Kalman filtering order tracking (AV2KF_OT) algorithm, which was implemented through a DSP chip module and a user interface coded by the LabVIEW®. This paper briefly introduces the theoretical derivation and numerical implementation of computation scheme. Experimental works justify the effectiveness of applying the developed online real-time condition monitoring system. They are the detection of startup on the fluid-induced instability, whirl, performed by using a journal-bearing rotor test rig.


2010 ◽  
Vol 450 ◽  
pp. 259-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Ching Ho ◽  
Tzu Hsin Kuo ◽  
Tsung Ting Tsai

Designing a robust condition monitoring system for a machine tool spindle is an important task because the spindle has a significant effect on the processing quality. In this study, a solar-powered wireless sensor system is installed inside the spindle and is used to monitor the machine tool processing state in real time, thereby improving the processing quality. Accelerometer sensors are employed to estimate tool wear; these sensors monitor the vibration of the spindle. The vibration monitoring data of the high-speed spindle is wirelessly transmitted to an external information device in real time. As an alternative to sensors that employ wired power transmission, a solar energy transmission system has been developed to provide the required electric power to the sensor system. The experimental results show that the proposed system successfully measures the vibration frequency of the rotational machine tool spindle.


2013 ◽  
Vol 804 ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
Yin Luo

t is a hot issues about how to the environmental condition conveniently and economically. A kind of remote real-time environmental condition monitoring system merging ad hoc network, GPRS/GSM and PSTN is designed. Ad hoc wireless sensor network (WSN) is used to detect environmental temperature, humidity, illuminance, gas and carbon monoxide concentration etc. Wireless gateway is constructed with GPRS/GSM module and embedded Modem. It realizes seamless connection of ad hoc network, GPRS/GSM and PSTN and transmits data collected by WSN to mobile and remote computer. This system has the characteristics of small, remote, dispread and economical, it can realize multipoint distribution, central management, multiple alarm and remote monitoring.


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