scholarly journals The integration of an automatic reserve switching controller into a railway traffic control system power supply through the use of a Petri net and a graphical programming language

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Grochowski ◽  
Sławomir Jasiński ◽  
Mariusz Maciejewski ◽  
Ireneusz Sitek

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (18) ◽  
pp. 5808
Author(s):  
Renata Markowska ◽  
Zofia Wróbel

Lightning discharge becomes a serious source of interference and damage for electronic and electrical power systems. Safe and reliable operation of railway traffic control systems requires proper protection against the effects of lightning. However, the current standards on lightning protection, PN-EN/EN/IEC 62305, do not cover railway objects. Moreover, there are no other standards or recommendations dedicated to the railway. The paper is an attempt to apply the procedure of lightning risk management according to PN-EN 62305-2 to select the proper protection measures in railway objects. A case study for the signal box with installed relaying and digital stations of the railway traffic control system is analyzed. The analysis comprises calculations based on the current standard PN-EN 62305-2:2012 but including the issues specific to railway traffic control. The risks of lightning losses have been calculated for two cases: without lightning protection measures and with protection measures proposed to decrease the risks below the tolerable values. The results show that a practically effective solution to reduce the risks is applying surge protective devices with proper characteristics. Another way is replacing unshielded incoming lines with shielded ones of given shield bonding way, and supplementing it with surge protective devices when necessary.


2011 ◽  
Vol 464 ◽  
pp. 327-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian Yan Du ◽  
De An Zhao ◽  
Li Huang

This paper deals with an implementation method of component-based Petri nets system based on a graphical programming language (LabVIEW). LabVIEW is not only a graphical programming language, but also a virtual instrument platform which is widely used in virtual measurement and control system. The Places (token number) of Petri nets are represented by Numeric Controls of LabVIEW. The Transitions of Petri nets are represented by subVIs of LabVIEW. Transition subVI will change the tokens of Places by the Numeric Controls' Reference when it is fired. This method will make it ease to implement a Petri net by simply combining Place and Transition components (subVI). The example implementing a special Petri net shows that the Front Panel of the controller reflects the system operating state directly; the Block Diagram is similar to the topology of original Petri net. The combination of two graphic languages makes the modeling, analysis and formal verification of measurement and control system based on Petri nets easier.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 945-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kara ◽  
M. Cengiz Savas

With the increasing use of railway transportation, various methods have been developed for the control and management of train traffic. Train traffic control systems that are currently in use are overwhelmingly centralized systems. In this study, the development of the general structure of railway traffic control techniques is examined, centralized and decentralized control systems are investigated, and an alternative train traffic control system, the Decentralized Train Traffic Management System (DTMS), is suggested. Simulation results on the possible application of the proposed method to a railway line in South-East Turkey are employed to evaluate the performance of the developed system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Paweł Wontorski

The article presents the issue of digitization of the design of railway traffic control systems. Digital design is a key element of digital modeling of railway infrastructure and the future in terms of documenting railway traffic control systems at all stages of its life cycle: concept, design, installation, testing and operation. The digital project is one of the pillars of the concept of the digital twin of the railway system. The need to digitize design results from technological and organizational changes taking place in the railway system. The goal of these changes is to replace traditional methods and techniques for creating a design with modern methods such as BIM. In this sense, the project cannot be further identified with the documentation, but it is a much broader concept that includes a set of data describing the railway traffic control system. The project includes both the mapping of the system - the model, as well as a description of how to implement this model. In order to achieve the main goal of digitization, this process should be carried out in many ways, so that it simultaneously covers the following aspects: (1) design (model), i.e. the subject of design, (2) design system, (3) design process, (4) system environment design system, (5) information exchange between the design system and the environment. The concept of digitization presented in the article requires the full involvement of design offices, infrastructure managers, scientific and research units and due to the extent of the issue it will be a long-term process, but due to the anticipated benefits - inevitable.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 627-631
Author(s):  
Waldemar Nowakowski ◽  
Piotr Bojarczyk ◽  
Zbigniew Łukasik

The major functionality of railway traffic control system is to ensure efficient and safe railway traffic. Contemporary technique, electronics and informatics in particular, allows for automation of more and more tasks in transportation processes. Irrespective of the manufacturing technology, railway traffic control systems have to meet specific safety requirements. Because of this, these systems belong to group of safety-critical systems, also called safety-related systems. Due to these requirements, development, building and verification processes of railway traffic control systems always end with the assessment of correctness of each process. It should be pointed out that these processes are compound and require high skills level for persons involved in it. Because of this, an environment for an expert system (ExSys Corvid) can be used to automation of these processes. Authors used ExSys Corvid environment to build the expert system for verification and validation of Level Crossing Protection System (LCPS). Research conducted by authors confirmed high usefulness of this technology and showed the need for the usage of it in other railway traffic control systems.


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