A new computer vision approach for active pantograph control. Aydin, İ, Karaköse, E., Karaköse, M., Gençoğlu, M. T., & Akın, E. In 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), pages 1–5, June, 2013.
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Railway vehicles have become a modern transport media day by day. With the development of high-speed trains, this transportation way has been widely used for the transportation of people and cargo. However, several fault type in the pantograph-catenary system affects the performance of the train. Contact between a pantograph and catenary must slide along train movement. A sufficient lifting force should be applied to the contact wire when train moves. Vibrations occurred between a pantograph and catenary system and oscillations of contact wire cause the loss of contact. So, burst of arcing occurs in contact point. In this study, a new computer vision based method is proposed to control the contact force. The proposed algorithm utilizes the edge detection and Hough transform for detection of pantograph height. The obtained height is given to the control algorithm and the height of the pantograph is adjusted. The proposed method is verified by using a video taken from real pantograph and efficient results has been obtained.
@inproceedings{aydin_new_2013,
	title = {A new computer vision approach for active pantograph control},
	doi = {10.1109/INISTA.2013.6577665},
	abstract = {Railway vehicles have become a modern transport media day by day. With the development of high-speed trains, this transportation way has been widely used for the transportation of people and cargo. However, several fault type in the pantograph-catenary system affects the performance of the train. Contact between a pantograph and catenary must slide along train movement. A sufficient lifting force should be applied to the contact wire when train moves. Vibrations occurred between a pantograph and catenary system and oscillations of contact wire cause the loss of contact. So, burst of arcing occurs in contact point. In this study, a new computer vision based method is proposed to control the contact force. The proposed algorithm utilizes the edge detection and Hough transform for detection of pantograph height. The obtained height is given to the control algorithm and the height of the pantograph is adjusted. The proposed method is verified by using a video taken from real pantograph and efficient results has been obtained.},
	booktitle = {2013 {IEEE} {International} {Symposium} on {Innovations} in {Intelligent} {Systems} and {Applications} ({INISTA})},
	author = {Aydin, İ and Karaköse, E. and Karaköse, M. and Gençoğlu, M. T. and Akın, E.},
	month = jun,
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {Canny edge detection, Contacts, Edge Detection, Force, Hough transform, Hough transforms, Image edge detection, Rail transportation, Real-time systems, Transforms, Vibrations, Wires, active pantograph control, arcing burst, catenary, computer vision, computer vision approach, contact force control algorithm, contact wire oscillations, control engineering computing, fault type, force control, high-speed trains, mechanical contact, pantograph, pantograph height detection, pantograph-catenary contact point, pantograph-catenary system, pantographs, railway vehicles, railways, sufficient lifting force, train movement, train performance, transport media, transportation},
	pages = {1--5}
}

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