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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 7.2

Identification of the Lateral Offset of Railway Tracks from Train Accelerations

M. Chihaoui1,2,3, D. Duhamel1, G. Perrin2 and C. Funfschilling3

1Laboratoire Navier, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Champs-sur-Marne, France
2COSYS, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
3Direction Technologies, Innovation et Projets Groupe, SNCF, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Chihaoui, D. Duhamel, G. Perrin, C. Funfschilling, "Identification of the Lateral Offset of Railway Tracks from Train Accelerations", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 7, Paper 7.2, 2024, doi:10.4203/ccc.7.7.2
Keywords: track irregularities, lateral offset, railway maintenance, inverse problem, linear estimation, train acceleration.

Abstract
The aim of the work presented here is the inverse identification of the railway tracks irregularities and more precisely the lateral offset using a railway dynamics software with measured irregularities as inputs. The broader goal is to use on-board sensors to identify track irregularities for the purpose of facilitating the maintenance of the railways. First of all, this identification involves the search for statistical correlations with the train’s accelerations and other irregularities. Then, an estimator is constructed in order to create an a-priori on the lateral offset irregularity.

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