The aim of this paper is to develop a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based online condition monitoring system for sensor network applications in railway catenary systems. The system is designed to perform in IP network-based wireless environments and is capable of storing data in a live wire state at 25 kV. A real-time controller, chassis (including a reconfigurable FPGA), and several I/O...

A filament of an incompressible highly viscous fluid that is supported at its ends sags under the influence of gravity. Its instantaneous shape resembles that of a catenary, but evolves with time. At short times, the shape is dominated by bending deformations. At intermediate times, the effects of stretching become dominant everywhere except near the clamping boundaries where bending boundary l...

Many problems require making sequential decisions. For these problems, the benefit of acquiring further information must be weighed against the costs. In this paper, we describe the catenary support vector machine (catSVM), a margin-based method to solve sequential stopping problems. We provide theoretical guarantees for catSVM on future testing examples. We evaluated the performance of catSVM ...

Müller generalized in [12] the notion of a Frobenius extension to left (right) quasi-Frobenius extension and proved the endomorphism ring theorem for these extensions. Recently, Guo observed in [9] that for a ring homomorphism φ : R → S, the restriction of scalars functor has to induction functor S ⊗R − : RM → SM as right ”quasi” adjoint if and only if φ is a left quasi-Frobenius extension. In ...

For σ−PWB extensions, we extend to modules the theory of Gröbner bases of left ideals presented in [5]. As an application, if A is a bijective quasi-commutative σ − PWB extension, we compute the module of syzygies of a submodule of the free module A.

In this paper, we show that every element of a discrete module is a sum of two units if and only if its endomorphism ring has no factor ring isomorphic to $Z_{2}$. We also characterize unit sum number equal to two for the endomorphism ring of quasi-discrete modules with finite exchange property.

Subject of the paper is a particular configuration of overhead line, in which noise barrier structure is used as supports of the catenary instead of standard poles. This configuration is foreseen in case the noise barrier position is in conflict with the poles location. If the catenary is supported by the noise barrier, the motion that the latter undergo due to wave pressure associated to train...

For AC railway power supply systems with a different frequency than the public grid, high-voltage AC (HVAC) transmission lines are common, connected to the catenary by transformers. This paper suggests an alternative design based on an HVDC (High Voltage DC) feeder, which is connected to the catenary by converters. Such an HVDC line would also be appropriate for DC-fed railways and AC-fed railw...

High speed trains permit faster travelling between long distance destinations, making it an easy and comfortable way of travelling. The pantograph is the element of the train that collects electrical current from the cable system above (the catenary), to the train motors. The contact force variation can cause contact losses, electric arc formations and sparking. This deteriorates the quality of...

Let be an artin algebra and denote by mod(() the category of nitely generated-modules. Apart from those we are also interested in-modules which are not nitely generated. These are called large. Recall that the algebra is of innnite representation type provided that mod(() has innnitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable objects. A theorem of Auslander asserts that there exists a large i...