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Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of power in the electric traction is vital for the safety of this important transport system. For this purpose, monitoring and diagnostics of the technical condition of the vehicle's power supply elements are becoming increasingly common. This paper presents a new visual method for detecting contact strip damage, based on measurement and analysis of the movement of the overhead contact line (OCL) wire. A measurement system configuration with a 2D camera was proposed. The experimental method has shown that contact strips damage can be detected by transverse displacement signal analysis. It has been proven that the velocity signal numerically established on that basis has a comparable level in the case of identical damage, regardless of its location on the surface of the contact strip. The proposed method belongs to the group of contact-less measurements, so it does not require interference with the structure of the catenary network nor the mounting of sensors in its vicinity. Measurement of displacements of the contact wire in 2D space makes it possible to combine the functions of existing diagnostic stands assessing the correctness of the mean contact force control adjustment of the current collector with the elements of the contact strip diagnostics, which involves detecting their damage which may result in overhead contact line rupture.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
no. 29,
edition 5,
pages 1 - 8,
ISSN: 0957-0233 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Judek S., Skibicki J.: Visual method for detecting critical damage in railway contact strips// MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. -Vol. 29, iss. 5 (2018), s.1-8
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1088/1361-6501/aaa9af
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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