PMS eer td RESEARCH RESEARCH & DEVLOPMENT ‘Trackside Bogle Monitoring System Trackside Bogie Monitoring System helps in detecting faults in bogies of Rolling Stock. The system uses Laser Range Finder to measure angle of attack and tracking position of a moving wheel set of a train. It ‘also measures lateral force & vertical force exerted by each wheel with the help of strain gauges & SCXI System. ‘These parameters help in identifying defective bogies. ‘The system can also identify vehicles automatically using FID system i RFID tags are provided on the vehicles. The schematic diagram of the system is shown below ‘The program for measuring angle of attack & tracking position using laser range finder and lateral & vertical forces using SCX! system has been developed. Field trials with RFID system have also been conducted foridentitying vehicles moving up to a speed of 150km/h. MoU with Industry partner for integrating the various sub systems and development of prototype has also been signed. Development of Derailment Detector The project has been taken under Technology Mission for Railway Safety It envisages development of an on-board system for sensing derailment of rolling stock. The system monitors acceleration values and actuates emergency brakes when the threshold limits, are exceeded. Trials are being conducted on different, types of Rolling Stock for ascertaining the threshold acceleration values. Sensors for Detecting Hot Box, Hot Wheel Development of a wayside system to detect Hot Boxes & Hot Wheels has been taken up under Technology Mission for Railway Safety with IT, Kanpur. The system detects Axle-boxes running hot due to bearing failure and wheels having abnormally high temperatures due to brake-binding It can also detect vehicles with ineffective brakes by detecting cold wheels, ‘The system uses infra-red sensors having fast response time and can reliably measure temperatures of axle boxes & wheels of a train travelling upto 200km/h. ‘Schematically the Hot Box and Hot Wheel sensing system is shown in the diagram Initialy, off the shelf pyrometers have been used to develop the software and collect data to fix the 57PUG ge erg Roso irri threshold limits. These pyrometers can reliably measure temperatures on trains running upto 60km/h.These will be subsequently replaced by MCT sensors for detection at higher speeds. ‘A display of the data recorded in a running train is, shown below MoU with industry partner for ruggedization, ‘weather & vandal proofing of the system and development of prototype has also been signed. Development of Wheel Impact Load Detector Wheel impact Load Detector system has been developed jointly by RDSO and IIT/Kanpur under the RDSO/IIT/K Railway Technology Cell. This system provides audio-visual signals to the train operative staff inthe event of passing of abnormal wheel having higher impact load due to wheel flats/defects which may cause serious damage to the track as well as rolling stocks. The WILD system automatically detects the wheels having higher impact load & round the clock automatic recording of the rolling stocks passing over the instrumented zone of the system. The projecthas been closed by Railway Board in May 2007. Railway Board has also nominated COFMOW for procurement and installation of WILD system for Indian Railways. Improved Oscillation Monitoring Systems (OMS) The OMS equipments are extensively used by Zonal Railways to monitor the quality of track through ride-index and vertical & lateral acceleration measured on arail-vehicle. Since the OMS developed earlier had become obsolete, as an altemative source to old version of OMS (OMS-2000) following two types of OMS equipments have been developed for assessing the track conditions. These systems have more capacity to store data, facility of on-line and offline printing of reports, low power consumption, higher reliability, compact and light ‘weight, The data storage/portabilt to PC enables various types of analysis even at ater stage for taking managerial track maintenance decisions. PC Based OMS Inthis type of OMS, accelerometers are provided on rail-vehicle and vertical & lateral accelerations are measured. These values are measured at every 10 mill sec, and Ride Index (RI) is calculated. The value of Rls, used to take decision on maintenance of track. The data consisting of RI values above threshold fixed by the user alongwith time/distance from last kilometre post is stored in the PC & can be seen on, monitor on-line, The data can also be used for off-line printing & analysis later on. Micro-Controller Based OMS In this type of OMS also, accelerometers are provided on raibvehicle and vertical & lateral accelerations, are measured, These values are measured at every 10, mill sec. and Ride Index (Rl) is calculated. The value of Riis used to take decision on maintenance of track. The data consisting of RI values above threshold fixed by the user alongwith time/distance from last Kilometre post is printed, The data is stored in the system's memory & can be transferred to a PC later. This data on a PC can be used for off-ine printing & analysis later on. Both types of OMS have been developed in association with M/s System Aids, 9th Main Road, 1st Stage, Hennur Banaswadi Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore -560 043 CRE)