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Observer Based Slip Measurement Technique of DC Motor
Mounted on Railway Wheel-set
Shahzor Memon1, Riaz
Uddin2 , Imtiaz Hussain Kalwar3 , Kamran Kazi4
1Department of Electronic
Engineering, Hamdard University Karachi, Pakistan
2Department of Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi-75270, Pakistan ([email protected])
3Department of Electrical Engineering, DHA Suffa University Karachi Pakistan
4Department of Electronic Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro Pakistan
Abstract: The
paper proposes the technique of detection and estimation of slip by using
parameters of motor such as torque and current for a locomotive system. The
motor is used for controlling wheel-set motion mounted on each axle of the
rail. As the track condition changes (due to decrease in adhesion/friction),
the parameter of motor considerably varies resulting slip occurrence. By
utilizing inertial mounted sensors (such as tachometer) in
order to measure the velocity of the train, slip can be detected.
Furthermore, the estimation of motor parameters is carried out using Kalman
filter, which minimizes the usage of additional sensors. In this regard, the
proposed method offers a cost effective, accurate and robust solution for the
slip issue in order to avoid accidents in locomotive
systems. The technique is validated using simulation results in this paper.
Keywords: Locomotive, Slip, Detection,
Estimation, Kalman Filter, Rail.
I.
Introduction
Low adhesion
(friction) problem has been spotted a vital parameter to be considered from the
beginning of railway transportation for the designing and operation of railway
vehicles [3]. The weather effect especially autumn drastically disturbs the
adhesion level in which decomposed leaves are crushed by the wheels of the
train. In this condition, applying a higher force on the track by the wheel
cause wheels-slip during traction and it is subjected to slide while braking,
which may be responsible as the damage of track and wheels itself. Various
techniques are adopted around the world to overcome this issue, the few of them
used (temporarily)are as: (i) vegetation, (ii) sandites (iii) water jetting management [2]. Hence from
these methods, the designers still could not get the comprehensive results in order to reduce the adhesion because of the highly
non-linearity of adhesion variations most of the time. Therefore, it is
difficult to monitor and calculate it exactly and it may certainly desire some
level of technical expertise to introduce a solid and appropriate technique to
deal with this problem.
In this paper, a wheel-set model is under observation and assessment is made on the basis of comparison between its dynamics under stable condition and slip condition. The information of slip can be acquired from motor parameters such as torque/current connected with each axel of rail as shown in Figure 1. In addition, Kalman filter is used in order to get the accurate estimation of torque/current. Once torque/current is estimated we can ultimately measure that how much slip is occurred during traction.
The remaining paper such as section II comprises of rail wheel-set. Section III presents the modeling of system dynamics. Section IV states the details of estimation of slip using Kalman filter. Section V shows the simulation results. Finally, section VI concludes the proposed method.
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