OBSTACLE DETECTING SYSTEM, AND TRAIN EQUIPPED WITH SAME

• Main Author: IMAGAWA, Seiji
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 10.09.2025
• Subjects: ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC; GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; RAILWAYS; TRANSPORTING

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of continuously operating a vehicle even when malfunction occurs in some of a plurality of sensors.A representative obstacle detection system of the present invention is an obstacle detection system including M sensors and signal processing units corresponding to the M sensors, the obstacle detection system including: an m-th sensor that detects an m-th detection range that is a range extending in a traveling direction that is a direction in which a vehicle travels toward the course; and a controller that controls the m-th sensor and the signal processing unit, in which the controller performs at least one change processing of first change processing of causing a first end to approach the vehicle and second change processing of causing a second end to move away from the vehicle, and changes at least a p-th detection range to change the obstacle detection range.