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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 110
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 267

Innovative Monitoring Systems for Onboard Vehicle Diagnostics

N. Zampieri, N. Bosso and A. Gugliotta

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
N. Zampieri, N. Bosso, A. Gugliotta, "Innovative Monitoring Systems for Onboard Vehicle Diagnostics", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 267, 2016. doi:10.4203/ccp.110.267
Keywords: railway monitoring, vehicle diagnostic, bearing sensors.

Summary
The paper shows the activities carried out at Politecnico di Torino to develop monitoring systems to be installed on board railway vehicles, capable of measuring and processing the signals detected on the axle-box, and on the bogie in order to detect malfunctions of several critical components. The general purpose of the system is that of ensuring a communication of first-level alarm in the event of component failure, but it is also able to provide indications regarding the requirements of the components in order to improve the programming of preventative maintenance. Various architectures have been designed considering the need to reduce the cost of the system so as to allow its application on a large variety of vehicles, including freight vehicles. The novelty of this approach is the fact that the acquisition system and diagnostics was developed specifically for the railway application starting from the level of hardware architecture.

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