This paper outlines the historical development of the wheel and rail profiles currently used on railway vehicles. It also presents the key damage mechanisms involved in wheel-rail contact and summarises the methods that have recently been developed by railway engineers to predict the level of wheel and rail damage from these mechanisms. Tools for predicting the key damage modes of wear and roll...

The authors investigated the effect of the opioid antagonist naloxone on wheel-running behavior in Balb/c mice. Naloxone delayed the acquisition of wheel-running behavior, but did not reduce the expression of this behavior once acquired. Delayed acquisition was not likely a result of reduced locomotor activity, as naloxone-treated mice did not exhibit reduced wheel running after the behavior wa...

For more than 6 years, the automated ultrasonic and eddy-current systems for the inspection of railroad wheel sets, developed by Fraunhofer IZFP and Fraunhofer TEG, have been field-hardened through daily operation at various maintenance facilities of the Deutsche Bahn (DB). The testing stations are equipped with IZFP’s multi-channel electronics, a modular PC integrated system operating inside 1...

This paper presents our SmartCar testbed platform a real time data acquisition and playback system and a machine learning dynamical graphical models framework for modeling and recognizing driver maneuvers at a tactical level with particular focus on how contextual information a ects the driver s performance The SmartCar s perceptual input is multi modal four video signals capture the surroundin...

This paper presents a path and speed planner for automated public transport vehicles in unstructured environments. Since efficiency and comfort are two of the key issues in promoting this kind of transportation system, they are dealt with explicitly in the proposed planning algorithm. To that end, a global path planner has been designed with bounded continuous curvature and bounded curvature de...

wheel-set is an important part of EMU. It directly influences the EMU operation security. In recent years, some harmful circumferential and radial defects are found in the wheel rim, which occur between the periods of two light maintenances. The comprehensive security system of wheel-set has already built in china to guarantee the EMU maintenance quality and operation security. It consists of r...

Eddy current techniques are widely used in the inspection of aging aircraft. A commercial eddy current system manufactured by ANDEC is currently in use in several airline companies including: Northwest, USAir, Canadian, Lufthansa and Delta airlines. In operating this system, the eddy current probe is moved vertically while the wheel is rotated horizontally, resulting in a helical scan of the wh...

Articulated wheel loaders used in the construction industry are heavy vehicles and have poor stability and a high rate of accidents because of the unpredictable changes of their body posture, mass and centroid position in complex operation environments. This paper presents a novel distributed multi-sensor system for real-time attitude estimation and stability measurement of articulated wheel lo...

This paper presents a new control algorithm that prevents electrical vehicle from wheel skidding in presence of uncertainties of tire-road condition. An estimator of the maximum effective torque is realized by wheel velocity and input torque, which is based on a pure kinematic relationship between the wheel and the chassis. In order to enhance the stability of the control system and handing per...