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An Experimental Evaluation of the Vehicle Control Algorithm in Personal Rapid Transit System  

Lee, Jun-Ho (한국철도기술연구원 전기신호연구본부)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.56, no.10, 2007 , pp. 1770-1774 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper we deal with a design of the evaluation system to assess the vehicle operational control algorithm for Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) system. PRT system is different from the conventional rail traffic system in such that the station is off-line so as to guarantee a very short headway. In this study we propose an evaluation system to assess the performance of the proposed vehicle control algorithm. The evaluation system is composed of virtual vehicles, central control system, virtual wayside facilities, monitoring equipments. The virtual vehicles are made up by the laptop computers and the central control system employs Power PC process of Motorola Inc. The wayside facilities are implemented by employing the PXI module of the National Instruments Corporation. In order to test the proposed evaluation system a test algorithm is used, which has been simulated in the combined simulation system between Labview Simulation Interface Toolkit and Matlab/Simulink.
Keywords
Personal Rapid Trasit System; Control System; Vehicle Control Algorithm; Operational Scenario;
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Times Cited By KSCI : 2  (Citation Analysis)
Times Cited By SCOPUS : 2
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