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Recent results in tilt control design and assessment of high-speed railway vehicles

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posted on 2009-04-01, 12:31 authored by Argyrios C. Zolotas, Roger M. Goodall, G.D. Halikias
Active tilt control is a well-established technology in modern railway vehicles, for which currently used control approaches have evolved in an intuitive matter. This paper presents work on a set of novel strategies for achieving local tilt control, i.e. applied independently for each vehicle rather than the whole train precedence approach that is commonly used. A linearized dynamic model is developed for a modern tilting railway vehicle with a tilt mechanism (tilting bolster) providing tilt below the secondary suspension. It addresses the fundamental problems associated with straightforward feedback control, and briefly discusses the current industry norm, which employs command-driven with precedence strategy. Two new advanced schemes are proposed, a model-based estimation approach, and an optimal LQG-based approach, and compared to the command-driven with precedence. The performance of the control schemes is assessed through simulation using a new proposed assessment method.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

ZOLOTAS, A.C., GOODALL, R.M. and HALIKIAS, G.D., 2007. Recent results in tilt control design and assessment of high-speed railway vehicles. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 221 (2), pp. 291-312

Publisher

© Professional Engineering Publishing

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2007

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit [© Professional Engineering Publishing]. The definitive version is available at: http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/468p555273741x15/fulltext.pdf

ISSN

0954-4097

Language

  • en