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A Design of a Simulation Apparatus for the Control of the Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) Vehicles  

Lee, Jun-Ho (KRRI(Korea Railroad Research Institute))
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.57, no.11, 2008 , pp. 2001-2005 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a design of a simulation apparatus to evaluate an operational control algorithm for the PRT system. PRT systems require very short headways to increase the line capacity and a very reliable vehicle control algorithm for avoidance of the impact between vehicles. Therefore, it can be said that the development of an reliable operational control algorithm for the PRT systems is much more important than that of the hardware configurations. In this paper an apparatus is proposed which is composed of virtual vehicles, a central control system, a man-machine interface and monitoring device, making it possible for the designed operational control algorithm to be implemented and tested. For the test of the proposed apparatus a test operational control algorithm is designed and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed simulation apparatus for test and evaluation of the PRT operational control algorithms.
Keywords
Personal Rapid Transit System; Operational Control Algorithm; Evaluation; simulation apparatus;
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