This paper presents a novel design concept of low-cost permanent monitoring system for rail-track problems. The introduced is theoretically overcome the currant in-use designs in terms providing accurate observations detecting irregularities all railway network during service time using integrated sensors. investigates common by identifying issues, presenting challenges, and highlighting limita...

A homogenized energy model was implemented in a model-based nonlinear control design to accurately track a reference displacement signal for high frequency magnetostrictive actuator applications. Rate dependent nonlinear and hysteretic magnetostrictive constitutive behavior is incorporated into the finite-dimensional optimal control design to improve control at high frequency. The integration o...

A Generalized Predictive Controller (GPC) for ship track keeping is introduced in this paper. A predictive model for desired heading angles is deduced, the controller is designed based not only on the prediction of the outputs (heading angles), but also on the prediction of the desired heading angles. A recursive algorithm for matrix inversion in the controller is also presented. Applied to car...

Car body acceleration is an important factor affecting track safety and ride comfort, which are two primary aspects of railway systems. Though track level is an important source of wagon body acceleration, no quantitative relation between them is available and the aim of this paper is to propose a method to address this issue. To do so, car body acceleration is determined using a 10 DOF simulat...

The control of vibration generated by railways in tunnels is complicated by the dynamic interaction between tunnel and track. Conventional methods (floating slab track, ballast mats, under-sleeper pads) do not perform as well as might be expected and it is the purpose of this paper to explore the sources of error. The major factors which must be taken into account pertain to the three-dimension...

A ballasted railway track system comprises several components among which steel rails, rail fasteners, timber, steel or concrete sleepers, granular ballast, sub-ballast, and subgrade materials are the main parts. Railway track systems are constructed to provide a smooth and safe running surface for passenger or freight trains. They are designed to sustain the force of lateral, longitudinal and ...

This paper presents a new technique for track-following control in hard disk drives, in order to achieve high tracking precision of magnetic read–write heads uniformly for a huge number of disk drives. The basic idea in this technique is to classify the disk drives into several sets depending on dynamics properties, and to apply a robust controller to each set. The problem of designing the opti...

The fast-tracking delivery method has received considerable attention over the last decade because of its time saving feature depending on overlapping of phases of a project. However, to implement the fast-tracking construction, not only the overlapping relationship between design and construction phases, but also the estimating the reduction of the construction duration is difficult to determi...

The increase in aerial storage capacities of future magnetic hard disk drives has fostered the use of dual-stage actuators for high track density data recording. In a hard disk drive with a dual-stage actuator the standard rotary actuation of the voice coil motor is combined with an additional micro or milli actuation to accomplish high-bandwidth and highly accurate track following. In order to...

To detect and receive the high dynamic and high information-rate signal for high altitude platform station(HAPS) in the stratosphere, it is necessary to design digital system to acquire and track the carrier. In the high dynamic and high information-rate situation, the most important aspect is the great influence of Doppler frequency shift and high information rate on the carrier acquisition an...