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A Design of a Simulation Platform to Test PRT Vehicle Operational Control Algorithms Using On-board Embedded Process Board  

Lee, Jun-Ho (한국철도기술연구원)
Jeong, Rac-Gyo (한국철도기술연구원)
Kim, Yong-Kyu (한국철도기술연구원 열차제어통신연구실)
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The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers / v.58, no.10, 2009 , pp. 1962-1967 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper deals with a design of a platform to simulate PRT vehicle operational control algorithms using on-board embedded process board. The configuration of the platform is composed of the central control module, the station control module, man-machine interface and monitoring module. Since PRT system needs inherently very reliable vehicle operational control algorithm in order to avoid the impact between vehicles, it is very important to construct a simulation platform to test a designed vehicle operational control algorithm during the development process For the test of the proposed platform a path of the each moving vehicle is predefined in the central control system before the dispatch order is given to the vehicle. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed simulation platform for test and evaluation of the PRT operational control algorithms.
Keywords
PRT; Operational Control Algorithm; Vehicle; Simulation platform;
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