Safety Mechanism for SkyTran Tracks
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SkyTran track must be incessantly supervised in order to prevent fatal crashes that can be happened due to damaged tracks. We suggest a safety tool for an incessant inspection of SkyTran tracks by employing an inexpensive digital camera generating JPEG pictures. An automatic analysis can indicates whether a track segment is damaged and if a damage track segment is detected by the automatic analysis, the traffic in this segment will be halted straightaway in order to verify whether the track segment is indeed damaged and accordingly to fix the track segment if needed.
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