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10/04/2014

ERTMS Application ERTMS Application on Tests and on Tests and MaintenanceMaintenance

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

ICT Applied for ERTMS Testing

Summary

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- ICT importance on Railway ERTMS Testing:

Aim: Assuring Interoperability

Adding Value (making verification cost effective)

- ICT Technologies:

Real-time data acquisition and processing:

Image processing (event detection and recognition),

Robot control (24h operation – remote site operation),

Distributed Processing (synchronisation, automated analysis)

- Fields:

Laboratory test of ERTMS implementations (Track, Onboard)

Track validation of implementations (Real-time standard check)

- European Railway Network:

Distributed ERTMS laboratory network for validation of corridors across Europe.

ICT on ERTMS Testing

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Assuring Interoperability:

Problem: Legacy systems compatibility

Market protection

Solution: Assure independent assessment of deployments

- Adding Value:

Making validation cost effective:

Fast and cheap enough to:

- Shortcuts on systems validation

Comprehensive enough to provide support for its development

ICT Technologies: Image Processing

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

3D Acquisition of DMI• Image stabilisation (1)• 3D video acquisition (2)• Hand removal. (3) (1)

(3)

(2)

ICT Technologies: Robot Control

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Robot Control allows:- 24hs x 24hs operation

- Black box testing

- Track equipment connected with onboard equipment in different sites

- Requirements:- Real-time operation (including image recognition)

ICT Technologies: Distributed Processing

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Validation of Corridors Implementations:

Onboard equipment in 1 country

Track from countries where the corridor passes through

Test Bench EVC

RBC IXL

RBC IXL

Country:

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B

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C

ICT Technologies: Results Analysis

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Semi-Automatic Analysis of ERTMS results (From Interface to SRS):

Integrated and synchronized, including DMI, JRU, TIU, ODO, BTM, RTM.

Laboratory ERTMS Equipment Tests

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Onboard:

EVC (Onboard):

- Subset-076 (Functionality),

- Subset-041 (Performance),

- Reliability

- Track Implementations and transitions:

- RBC (Radio Block Center)

- IXL (Interlocking)

- Standards:- ERTMS

- National Systems (compatibility)

- Operational Tests

ICT on Track Validation/Maintenance Tests

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- Maintenance solutions for:- Preventive Balise Failures (RF and Signal Processing), which comprises:

-A receiving antenna called the “SENSING LOOP” attached below the BTM antenna on the train.

-A Main Control Unit (MCU) and

-A GPS receiving antenna:

-The EUROBALISE ANALYZER gives an onboard automatic EUROBALISE tests tool for maintenance of on-track deployed Eurobalises.

- Radio Interference Detection (Radio Technology)

- Pantograph Fault Detection (Image Processing)

BTM

BTM ANTENNA

SENSING LOOP

EBTMSNIFFER

MCU

EUROBALISE

European Railway Network Alliance Aligned with ERDF 2014-2020 Priorities

+ 40 European universities have been contacted

+ 17 have confirmed their interest

+ 11 have confirmed their participation

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

An ICT/ rail / transport European Alliance

European Railway R&D Network

coordinated by Multitel

Track & board railway interoperability

Rolling stock Interoperability (mechanical test solutions,

maintenance, noise)

Training center (driver,simulator)

Multimodality (automotive, ship, optimization, urbain rail

University of Zilina

University of Ljubljana

TTK University of Applied Sciences

Technical University of Sofia

University of Miskolc

Poznan University of Technology

University of Pardubice

Cardiff University

Kaunas University of Technology

University Politehnica of Timisoara

Széchenyi Istvan University

Certh - HIT

Silesian University of Technology

Riga Technical University

University of Bari

University of Mons

Catholic University of Louvain

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

Conclusion

ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

- ICT applied to testing has resulted in:

Reduction of Onboard testing from 9 months to 1 month:

- Due to the use of:

- Image recognition

- Robot Control

- Support to Data Analysis up to SRS requirements

- Practical results:

- Full tests now assure full standard compliance,

- Without slowing down deployment and

- Moreover, full tests improve ERTMS interoperability

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ICT on Railway ERTMS Testing

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