Mechatronic developments for railway vehicles of the future |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;2. DLR, Institute of Aeroelasticity, Vehicle System Dynamics, D-82234 Wessling, Germany;1. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, Hunan Province, PR China;2. The State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang Province, PR China;3. Institute of Railway Research, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK;1. IRTES-SET (Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports), University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort 90010, France;2. FCLab FR CNRS 3539, FEMTO-ST UMR CNRS 6174, University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort 90010, France;1. UK National Committee of UNESCO MaB Programme, Civic Centre, North Walk, Barnstaple, Devon, UK;2. ‘Decarbonizing Cities and Regions’, Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute, Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, 3 Pakenham St, Fremantle 6160, Australia;3. Centre of Agriculture and Climate Change, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;4. Institute for Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage, 9 Dengzhuang South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, China;5. PLANT Environmental Intelligence LLC, CEO, Av Italia 66 apt 102, 13.416-490, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil;6. Division of International Organization Programs, Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 52, Sanlihe Rd, Beijing 100864, China;1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology & Research,Guntur, Andhrapradesh, India;2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, TKR College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vignan’s Lara Institute of Technology & Science, Guntur, Andhrapradesh, India;4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
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| Abstract: | Railway vehicles have principally been designed by mechanical engineers since railways began in the early 1800s, i.e. before electronics and feedback control were invented. Today however they contain substantial amounts of electronic and computer control, in particular the traction systems, which have been converted entirely. However electronic control can also be applied to the vehicle suspension and guidance functions, which can provide large improvements in performance. More significantly, incorporation of sensors, controllers and actuators into the design process from the start can enable vehicle designers to take advantage of different mechanical configurations which are not possible with a purely mechanical approach—in other words the true spirit of mechatronics. The paper reviews the concepts, the current state-of-the-art and opportunities for mechatronic developments for railways for the future. |
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