A rail vehicle including a wheel assembly having wheels configured to traverse rails of a railroad track, a controller having a processor in communication with the wheel assembly, and a non-transitory computer readable medium, disposed on the vehicle, and containing instructions, which, cause the following steps in real-time as the vehicle traverses the rails: determine a rail pressure of the wheels on the rails, determine a degree of curvature of the rails as the vehicle moves along the railroad track, determine a minimum rail pressure of the wheels on the rails based on the degree of curvature, determine if the rail pressure is equal to or greater than the minimum rail pressure and adjust the rail pressure of the wheels on the rails to be the minimum rail pressure when the rail pressure is less than the minimum rail pressure to maintain stability of the vehicle on the railroad track.

A system for detecting properties of at least one wheel of a rail vehicle, where the system is arrangeable at at least one first rail, where the system has at least one first detection device, where the first detection device is configured to detect at least one first region of a wheel of a rail vehicle passing on the first rail; a system and a method for establishing properties of a wheel and/or a wheelset of a rail vehicle, in which the accuracy of the established properties of the wheel and/or of the wheelset is increased in comparison with systems and/or methods known from the prior art, is realized by virtue of the first detection device being a plenoptic camera.

A system for detecting properties of at least one wheel of a rail vehicle, where the system is arrangeable at at least one first rail, where the system has at least one first detection device, where the first detection device is configured to detect at least one first region of a wheel of a rail vehicle passing on the first rail; a system and a method for establishing properties of a wheel and/or a wheelset of a rail vehicle, in which the accuracy of the established properties of the wheel and/or of the wheelset is increased in comparison with systems and/or methods known from the prior art, is realized by virtue of the first detection device being a plenoptic camera.

A wheelset measurement device (1) for the wheelsets (2) of rail vehicles is used to check the wheelsets (2) of rail vehicles for an operationally safe state and for meeting the operating limit measures when built into the rail vehicles. In order to facilitate such checks with comparatively little effort and high reliability, the wheelset measurement device (1) has two separate device subunits (7,8) that can be displaced individually and which each can be pushed laterally against the wheelset (2) and be arranged in the position pushed against the wheelset (2).

A wheelset measurement device (1) for the wheelsets (2) of rail vehicles is used to check the wheelsets (2) of rail vehicles for an operationally safe state and for meeting the operating limit measures when built into the rail vehicles. In order to facilitate such checks with comparatively little effort and high reliability, the wheelset measurement device (1) has two separate device subunits (7,8) that can be displaced individually and which each can be pushed laterally against the wheelset (2) and be arranged in the position pushed against the wheelset (2).

Provided is a constant monitoring system for a railway vehicle that is monitorable of a dimensional change of a railroad truck during running. The present disclosure is the constant monitoring system for the railway vehicle that includes a sensor and a calculator. The sensor detects passage therethrough of wheels included in the railroad truck of the railway vehicle. The calculator calculates an inter-axle distance between two axles of the railroad truck based on a detection result obtained from the sensor. The sensor includes two displacement sensors of non-contact type that detect the passage of the wheels from respective different locations.

Provided is a constant monitoring system for a railway vehicle that is monitorable of a dimensional change of a railroad truck during running. The present disclosure is the constant monitoring system for the railway vehicle that includes a sensor and a calculator. The sensor detects passage therethrough of wheels included in the railroad truck of the railway vehicle. The calculator calculates an inter-axle distance between two axles of the railroad truck based on a detection result obtained from the sensor. The sensor includes two displacement sensors of non-contact type that detect the passage of the wheels from respective different locations.

The disclosure relates to a method for radially aligning wheelsets of rail vehicles relative to a coordinate system of a wheelset diagnosis tool and/or wheelset machine tool, which method can be implemented quickly with sufficient precision and comprises the following steps: a) positioning the wheelset at a working position of the tool; b) defining a tool-side coordinate system in an assumed wheel centre point of each wheel, where an X-axis adopts a vertical extent, a Y-axis adopts a horizontal extent and a Z-axis describes the resulting depth extent of the wheel; c) measuring the distance of the wheel backs with respect to one another and defining the Z-position=0 on each wheel back; d) defining a unique Z-position for each measuring point; e) positioning each measuring sensor at the specified Z-position; f) measuring the X-position of each measuring point; g) aligning the wheelset by vertically displacing one of the wheels in order to match the X-positions of the measuring points of two wheels.

The disclosure relates to a method for radially aligning wheelsets of rail vehicles relative to a coordinate system of a wheelset diagnosis tool and/or wheelset machine tool, which method can be implemented quickly with sufficient precision and comprises the following steps: a) positioning the wheelset at a working position of the tool; b) defining a tool-side coordinate system in an assumed wheel centre point of each wheel, where an X-axis adopts a vertical extent, a Y-axis adopts a horizontal extent and a Z-axis describes the resulting depth extent of the wheel; c) measuring the distance of the wheel backs with respect to one another and defining the Z-position=0 on each wheel back; d) defining a unique Z-position for each measuring point; e) positioning each measuring sensor at the specified Z-position; f) measuring the X-position of each measuring point; g) aligning the wheelset by vertically displacing one of the wheels in order to match the X-positions of the measuring points of two wheels.

A system and method for monitoring the operating condition of a wheelset on a railcar comprising a sealed unit mounted on or near a wheelset of the railcar for collecting data from the wheelset and performing AI analyses on the collected data to determine the operational condition and predict failure modes for the wheelset. Results are communicated off-railcar wirelessly via one or more of several different methods.