Fibre optic portable rail vehicle detector

Stanislav Kepak; Jakub Cubik; Petr Zavodny; Stanislav Hejduk; Jan Nedoma; Alan Davidson; Vladimir Vasinek

doi:10.1117/12.2257061

23 December 2016 Fibre optic portable rail vehicle detector

Stanislav Kepak, Jakub Cubik, Petr Zavodny, Stanislav Hejduk, Jan Nedoma, Alan Davidson, Vladimir Vasinek

Proceedings Volume 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 101421M (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2257061
Event: 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2016, Jasna, Slovakia

Abstract

During track maintenance operations, the early detection of oncoming rail vehicles is critical for the safety of maintenance personnel. In addition, the detection system should be simple to install at the trackside by minimally qualified personnel. Fibre optic based sensor systems have the inherent advantages of being passive, unaffected by radio frequency interference (RFI) and suffering very low signal attenuation. Such a system therefore represents a good alternative to conventional approaches such as ultrasonic based sensor systems. The proposed system consists of one or more passive fibre trackside sensors and an x86 processing unit located at the work site. The solid fibre connection between sensors and processing unit eliminates the risk of RFI. In addition, the detection system sensors are easy to install with no requirement for electrical power at the sensor site. The system was tested on a tram line in Ostrava with the results obtained indicating the successful detection of all the trams in the monitoring windows using a single sensor. However, the platform allows flexibility in configuring multiple sensors where required by system users.

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Stanislav Kepak, Jakub Cubik, Petr Zavodny, Stanislav Hejduk, Jan Nedoma, Alan Davidson, and Vladimir Vasinek "Fibre optic portable rail vehicle detector", Proc. SPIE 10142, 20th Slovak-Czech-Polish Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 101421M (23 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2257061

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