A condition monitoring system for bearing units for vehicles, the system including at least one condition monitoring unit for measuring at least one operating parameter of one bearing unit and a control unit for receiving and processing signals obtained from the condition monitoring unit. The system additionally includes a circuit for detecting a geographic position, wherein the condition monitoring unit is configured to be at least one of activated and deactivated depending on the detected geographic position.

Provided are a control method, apparatus and device for an automatic train operation system. The method includes: acquiring multiple preset traction distribution strategies; determining, for each traction distribution strategy, a performance index of the traction distribution strategy; determining an optimal traction distribution strategy based on performance indexes of the multiple traction distribution strategies; and controlling the automatic train operation system based on the optimal traction distribution strategy.

The present disclosure provides an operation adjustment method and system for metro trains in a delay scenario. The method includes: acquiring basic parameters, current delay information and current online train information in a metro system; determining a detaining position of a departing train and an operation strategy of a waiting train according to the acquired; determining a next state of a running train according to the detaining position, the operation strategy, and the acquired; and optimally configuring an available rolling stock resource of the metro system according to the next state of the running train and operation data. The present disclosure can automatically adjust the operation diagram according to the delay information and reasonably change the operation plan of the rolling stock, so as to reduce influences of the delay on passengers and improve the actual fulfillment rate of the operation diagram.

The present disclosure relates to an automatic train operation system in railway vehicles, the system including: a speed profile generation unit configured to generate speed profile information based on limited speed profile inputted from outside; a track database stored with track gradient information and track curvature information for each track segment; a train speed controller configured to control a speed of the train using a current position, a current speed and the speed profile information of the train inputted from outside; and a propulsion system fault diagnosis unit configured to diagnose a fault status of the propulsion system based on the current speed of the train, the track gradient information, the track curvature information and propulsion notch information inputted from the train speed controller, and to calculate a performance depreciation ratio when the propulsion system is faulted and to provide the performance depreciation ratio to the train speed controller.

The invention relates to a rolling unit (8) for a test rig (1) for testing an automatic underground train, comprising: two rolling belts (27), each one provided for a wheel (6) of the train to roll thereon, the wheels driving the movement of the belts; and a rotary inertial body (28); each belt comprising: a pinion (31) that is rotatably connected to the inertial body; two rollers (33); and a grooved rolling surface (32) mounted on the rollers, meshed with the pinion, and forming a rolling area (34) for a respective wheel between the rollers.

A system includes a mobile platform that moves under remote and/or autonomous control, a sensor package supported by the mobile platform that obtains information relating to a component of a transportation network, and one or more processors that receive the sensor information and analyze the information in combination with other information that is not obtained from the sensor package. The processors also generate an output that displays information relating to one or more of a status, a condition, and/or a state of health of the component of the transportation network; initiates an action to change an operational state of the component; identifies a hazard to one or more vehicles traveling within the transportation network; and/or collects the information relating to the component. Optionally, the component is not communicatively coupled to an information network and the mobile platform provides the information obtained by the sensor package to the information network.

The wireless communication system comprises: a plurality of ground radio sets installed along a railway that carry out the transmission/reception of a radar signal with a first frequency and the transmission/reception of a communication signal with a second frequency; a vehicle radio set on a train that carries out the transmission/reception of a communication signal with the second frequency; and a switching control device that controls the switching of ground radio sets that are to communicate with the vehicle radio set based on the reception level of the radar signal. Furthermore, the configuration allows the ground radio sets that are not communicating with the vehicle radio set to transmit a radar signal, and allows the ground radio set that has started communicating with the vehicle radio set to transmit a radar signal and a communication signal.

A cyber security system for providing security to a railway system, the system comprising: a data monitoring and processing hub; a network of data collection agents configured to monitor communications transmitted between railway infrastructure and/or rolling stock entities and mirror the communications to the hub; wherein the processing hub comprises computer executable instructions executable to: process the mirrored communications to determine normative patterns of communications between the entities; use the normative patterns to determine sequences of related communications; determine characteristic features of the determined communications sequences; and use the determined characteristic features to determine whether a given communication mirrored to the hub by a data collection agent of the network of data collection agents is anomalous.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for cooperative control of multiple trains. The method includes: S1, establishing a train dynamic model of urban rail transit; S2, modeling a train control system of urban rail transit based on train-to-train communication; S3, constructing, according to the dynamic model and a control system model, an optimized control target which comprehensively considers distance convergence and speed convergence of train formation; and S4, cooperatively controlling, on the basis of an artificial potential field method and Kalman filtering and according to the optimized control target, the multiple trains. The present disclosure is capable of effectively shortening a train headway.

The invention relates to a device for automatic dispensing of a maintenance agent, such as an anti-icing agent or a de-icing agent, on specific parts of a rolling stock travelling on a railway track. The device comprises a dispensing unit, a detection unit configured to generate a detection signal before said rolling stock reaches the dispensing unit, a sensor unit configured to determine position and velocity of the rolling stock, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to receive said detection signal from said detection unit, determine a dispensing schedule based on said rolling-stock velocity, and transmit a control signal to the dispensing unit to control said dispensing unit based on said dispensing schedule. Furthermore, the present inventive concept also relates to an associated method.