Research operating test of railway vehicles

Control for Railway Vehicles

Structural Crashworthiness of Railway Vehicles

As a form of transport, rail has always maintained lower accident levels than its counterparts, the car and the airplane. The railway industry, however strives for still better safety measures to be implemented – a fact which intensifies with each accident that occurs. In the last years the continuous developments in technology, computer modeling capabilities and know-how have opened up various...

Comparative Calculation of the Fuel-Optimal Operating Strategy for Diesel Hybrid Railway Vehicles

Optimal Operating Strategy for Hybrid Railway Vehicles Based on a Sensitivity Analysis

The potential fuel savings of hybrid vehicles strongly depend on the energy management strategy, which distributes the required power between the prime mover and the additional power sources. Here, it is necessary to take into account the efficiencies of the whole propulsion system. In this paper, a novel operating strategy is developed that considers the efficiencies of all major components of...

Safe Control of Manufacturing Vehicles Research towards Standard Test Methods

The National Institute of Standards and Technology‟s Intelligent Systems Division has been researching several areas leading to safe control of manufacturing vehicles to improve automated guided vehicle (AGV) safety standards. The research areas include:  AGV safety and control based on advanced two-dimensional (2D) sensors that detect moving standard test pieces representing humans;  Ability...