Development of Railway Point Electric Heating Intellectual Control Algorithm
Transport Problems 2020
Ruslans Muhitovs, Mareks Mezītis, Iļja Korago

The article reviews and describes problems of railway point heating conventional control system considering its structure, simple design, disadvantages and nonconformity. As a solution to the described problem, an innovative and advanced point heating control algorithm is proposed based on Mathlab’s Fuzzy Logic Designer module, which will allow controlling heating more effectively and intellectually. The tasks for the advanced and intellectual point heating control system were set. Interdependency of different input variables and their weights of proposed algorithm are shown and described. Conclusions show that the approach of introducing control algorithm based on Fuzzy Logic will allow to control point heating in more advanced and efficient way - switching on and off based on interdependency of different weather conditions and weather forecast; using input data control system will decide automatically when to switch the heating on and off.


Keywords
railway, point heating, railway points, intellectual algorithm, fuzzy logic
DOI
10.21307/TP-2020-007
Hyperlink
https://www.exeley.com/transport_problems/doi/10.21307/tp-2020-007

Muhitovs, R., Mezītis, M., Korago, I. Development of Railway Point Electric Heating Intellectual Control Algorithm. Transport Problems, 2020, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.71-79. ISSN 1896-0596. e-ISSN 2300-861X. Available from: doi:10.21307/TP-2020-007

Publication language
English (en)
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