A Novel Method for non-contact measuring diameter parameters of wheelset based on wavelet analysis

A railway wheelset is subject to normal wear due to large part to friction contact between the wheelset and the rail. It is very important to measure the diameter parameter of wheelset for the safety of trains. The optoelectronic method is introduced and can dynamically measure the diameter paramete...

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Published inOptik (Stuttgart) Vol. 123; no. 5; pp. 433 - 438
Main Authors Zhang, Zhifeng, Lu, Chao, Zhang, Fangzhen, Ren, Yufen, Yang, Kun, Su, Zhan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier GmbH 01.03.2012
Subjects
Contact
Denoise
FFT
Fourier transforms
Friction
On-line systems
Optoelectronic technique
Optoelectronics
Trains
Wavelet analysis
Wheelset diameter
Wheelsets
Wavelet analysis
Denoise
Optoelectronic technique
FFT
Wheelset diameter
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ISSN0030-4026
1618-1336
DOI10.1016/j.ijleo.2011.04.023

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Summary:A railway wheelset is subject to normal wear due to large part to friction contact between the wheelset and the rail. It is very important to measure the diameter parameter of wheelset for the safety of trains. The optoelectronic method is introduced and can dynamically measure the diameter parameter. Fast Fourier transform and wavelet analysis methods are used to denoise the detected signals of wheelset diameters. The results show that the wavelet analysis provides a much better way of denoising of the signals compared with the fast Fourier transform method. Comparisons of the diameter parameter measurements with the manual apparatus and the optoelectronic system are presented. The measurement accuracy of diameter parameter was within 1.0mm. The root-mean-square error of the diameter is 0.51 and 0.15, respectively. The accuracy meets the measuring requirement of diameter parameters on line and shows that the system has better repeatability and reliability compared to the manual measurement.
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ISSN:0030-4026
1618-1336
DOI:10.1016/j.ijleo.2011.04.023