Data-driven technology of fault diagnosis in railway point machines: Review and challenges

X Hu, Y Cao, T Tang, Y Sun - Transportation Safety and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Safety and reliability are absolutely vital for sophisticated Railway Point Machines (RPMs).
Hence, various kinds of sensors and transducers are deployed on RPMs as much as …

On the fault detection and diagnosis of railway switch and crossing systems: An overview

M Hamadache, S Dutta, O Olaby, R Ambur, E Stewart… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Railway switch and crossing (S&C) systems have a very complex structure that requires not
only a large number of components (such as rails, check rails, switches, crossings, turnout …

A sound-based fault diagnosis method for railway point machines based on two-stage feature selection strategy and ensemble classifier

Y Cao, Y Sun, G Xie, P Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contactless fault diagnosis is one of the most important technique for fault identification of
equipment. Based on the idea of contactless fault diagnosis, this paper presents a sound …

Contactless fault diagnosis for railway point machines based on multi-scale fractional wavelet packet energy entropy and synchronous optimization strategy

Y Sun, Y Cao, P Li - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway point machines (RPMs) is one of the most vital devices closely related to the
efficiency and safety of train operation. Considering the advantages of contactlessness and …

Sound based fault diagnosis for RPMs based on multi-scale fractional permutation entropy and two-scale algorithm

Y Sun, Y Cao, G Xie, T Wen - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering the advantages of contactless fault diagnosis, a novel sound based fault
diagnosis method for railway point machines (RPMs) is proposed. Firstly, a denoising …

Railway automatic switch stationary contacts wear detection under few-shot occasions

X Hu, Y Cao, Y Sun, T Tang - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Railway Automatic Switch (RAS) plays a crucial role in Turnout Switching System (TSS). The
size of RAS's Stationary Contacts (SCs) directly affects connectivity of the pivotal control and …

Data-driven optimization of railway maintenance for track geometry

S Sharma, Y Cui, Q He, R Mohammadi, Z Li - Transportation Research Part …, 2018 - Elsevier
Railway big data technologies are transforming the existing track inspection and
maintenance policy deployed for railroads in North America. This paper develops a data …

Fault detection and diagnosis of railway point machines by sound analysis

J Lee, H Choi, D Park, Y Chung, HY Kim, S Yoon - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Railway point devices act as actuators that provide different routes to trains by driving
switchblades from the current position to the opposite one. Point failure can significantly …

A novel approach to railway track faults detection using acoustic analysis

R Shafique, HUR Siddiqui, F Rustam, S Ullah… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Regular inspection of railway track health is crucial for maintaining safe and reliable train
operations. Factors, such as cracks, ballast issues, rail discontinuity, loose nuts and bolts …

Railway point machine prognostics based on feature fusion and health state assessment

V Atamuradov, K Medjaher, F Camci… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a condition monitoring approach for point machine prognostics to
increase the reliability, availability, and safety in railway transportation industry. The …