For diagnosing a railroad switch with a point machine, a first and a second time series of a sensor signal of the point machine are received. Moreover, changes in the first and the second time series are detected indicating changes of operational conditions of the point machine. Furthermore, an event point of a respective change in the first and in the second time series is allocated to a respective component of the railroad switch or of the point machine based on a simulation modelling the respective component. Then for a respective component: event points allocated to that respective component are identified, the sensor signal at a first identified event point in the first time series is compared with the sensor signal at a second identified event point in the second time series, and depending on the comparison a component-specific fault information and an identification of the respective component are output.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for providing an automated interlocking logic for moving-block railway signaling. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for generating a train route for railway signaling based on moving block principle, including generating a directed graph for a track layout by calling pre-stored track information, generating a path matrix corresponding to the number of movement hops of a train based on the directed graph, and generating a train route from the path matrix, and verifying the train route by obtaining route information of the train from a mission of an automatic train supervision (ATS) system and comparing the route information with the train route.

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for providing an automated interlocking logic for moving-block railway signaling. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for generating a train route for railway signaling based on moving block principle, including generating a directed graph for a track layout by calling pre-stored track information, generating a path matrix corresponding to the number of movement hops of a train based on the directed graph, and generating a train route from the path matrix, and verifying the train route by obtaining route information of the train from a mission of an automatic train supervision (ATS) system and comparing the route information with the train route.

The present invention provides a failure logic modeling method for a high-speed railway train operation control on-board system, including the following steps: determining the functional relationship between the structure and the parts of the train control on-board system; analyzing the failures of the parts based on known failures of the train control on-board system in combination with brainstorming; establishing an FMEA table to generalize the failures of the parts; editing and simulating the failures by using a modeling tool. By adopting the present invention, the failure modes analyzed are more systematic, and the failure logic modeling can be carried out from a global perspective more easily, the whole process can be better targeted meanwhile, the security analysis complexity of the train control system will be effectively reduced and the development period of the train control system will be shortened.

An apparatus for supporting development of a program used in a control device of a train monitoring and controlling apparatus including a plurality of intra-train networks, the control device transmitting/receiving signals to/from the plurality of intra-train networks, the control device including a plurality of communication substrates for communicating with one of the plurality of intra-train networks and the control substrate connected to the plurality of communication substrates, the program development supporting apparatus receives a communication-substrate network communication data definition file used in each of the plurality of communication substrates, generates a control-substrate input/output signal variable definition file by using the communication-substrate network communication data definition file, and outputs the control-substrate input/output signal variable definition file. The control-substrate input/output signal variable definition file is used in the control substrate, the control substrate performing communication in a communication data format that is common among the plurality of communication substrates.

A method validates an obstacle identification system. In order to be able to demonstrate that obstacles are identified by an obstacle identification system at least as reliably as by a driver, it is provided that, in order to form driving scenarios, stochastic combinations of prespecified distributions of submodules are provided. The provided combinations are subjected first, for carrying out a simulation study, to simulation by a simulator and second to automatic processing by an obstacle identification algorithm of the obstacle identification system, and a result of a simulation study, which is carried out by the simulator, and a result of the automatic processing are automatically tested for agreement.

A multichannel ground fault tester that can be connected to multiple individual circuits (or nodes isolated from each other within a circuit) at the same time. The circuits or nodes can be tested sequentially, or in any order, without manually disconnecting, moving and reconnecting the tester as is currently required when using a single-channel ground fault tester to test multiple circuits (or nodes isolated from each other within a circuit).

A method and an apparatus for a train control system are disclosed, and are based on virtualization of train control logic and the use of cloud computing resources. A train control system is configured into two main parts. The first part includes physical elements of the train control system, and the second part includes a virtual train control system that provides the computing resources for the required train control application platforms. The disclosed architecture can be used with various train control technologies, including communications based train control, cab-signaling and fixed block, wayside signal technology. Further, the disclosure describes methodologies to convert cab-signaling and manual operations into distance to go operation.

The invention discloses a method and a system for state feedback predictive control of a high-speed train based on a forecast error. The method comprises: obtaining a speed prediction model of a high-speed train ${\hat{y}}_{k+p}=C{A}^p{x}_k+\underset{i=1}{\overset{p}{.Math.}}C{A}^{i-1}B{u}_{k+p-i};$
predicting speeds of the train at times k and k+p according to the speed prediction model; obtaining an actual speed output value of the train; determining a speed prediction error at time k according to the prediction speed of the train and the actual speed output value of the train; correcting a prediction speed of the train at time k+p, according to the speed prediction error, to obtain a corrected prediction speed of the train; calculating a control force u.sub.k of the train according to u.sub.k=?.sup.?1(p)[y.sub.k+p.sup.r?y.sub.k?Kx.sub.k+?.sub.k]; and applying a control force to the train based on the control force u.sub.k. The disclosure may have features of strong adaptability and easy calculation, and achieve high-precision tracking of train speed.

For a respective passenger car, a number of passengers situated therein and/or a number of available spaces is determined. A passenger flow simulation is initialized on the basis of the determined numbers is provided. A multiplicity of potential directions of movement are furthermore determined, for which a multiplicity of direction of movement-specific movement profiles are read in. The initialized passenger flow simulation is then executed for a respective movement profile, wherein a distribution value that rates a resultant passenger distribution is determined in each case. From the potential directions of movement, depending on the determined distribution values, specific directions of movement are selected and are output as direction of movement indications on passenger-specific and/or location-specific direction indicators is also provided.