A collision avoidance system for railroad vehicles needs to determine their location in the railroad network precisely and reliably. For a vehicle-based system, that is independent from the infrastructure, it is vital to determine the direction a railroad vehicle turns at switches. In this paper a vision based approach is presented that allows to achieve this reliably, even under difficult conditions. In the images of a camera that observes the area in front of a railroad vehicle the rail tracks are detected in real-time. From the perspective of the moving railroad vehicle rail tracks branch and join from/to the currently travelled rail track. By tracking these rail tracks in the images, switches are detected as they are passed. It is shown that the followed track can be determined at branching switches. The approach is tested with real data from test rides in different locations and under a variety of weather conditions and environments. It proved to be very robust and of high practical use for track-selective self-localization of railroad vehicles, mandatory for collision avoidance.


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    Title :

    Vision based rail track and switch recognition for self-localization of trains in a rail network


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    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 10 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





    Vision Based Rail Track and Switch Recognition for Self-Localization of Trains in a Rail Network

    Wohlfeil, J. / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011


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