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Locomotive Drive Control
One of the leading manufacturers world-
wide of railway vehicles has partnered
with MEN to develop a DIN rail control for
re-fitting, retro-fitting and modernizing its
vehicles. The computer bus and vehicle bus
applied is CAN with a special safety-critical
CANopen protocol.
The connection to the train bus is imple-
mented using a CAN-to-WTB gateway.
Electronics, mechanical design and software
were also developed according to strictly
defined safety-critical requirements. Reliable
vehicle electronics like this system plays
an important role for safe and economical
operation of modern railway vehicles.
It controls, monitors, and diagnoses all
functions during drive and brake operation,
optimizes operation processes and relieves
the train driver.
The system is modular, for instance to be
flexibly adapted to the varying requirements
of locomotives or railcars with different
drives (diesel-electric, diesel-hydraulic etc.).
Pentium
®
III based computer board, analog
and digital I/O, pick-ups for the route
sensors and an optional MVB connection.
The monitoring system of this manufacturer
has the advantage of providing a response
channel that allows the permanent trans-
mission of status data of the vehicles back to
the control center. The demand to optimize
mass transit is increasing rapidly, especially
on the growing markets of Asia. Driverless
subway systems are an important economic
aspect. They allow a journey from station
to station that is optimized for energy
consumption and speed, but also a stop at
the station that is precise to the centime
-
ter. Depending on the project up to 500
mobile and especially stationary control and
management systems are needed to monitor
the train on a line.
In a different application a 6U VMEbus
system is the basis for the automated train
control in French trains. MEN is delivering
a PowerPC
®
based System-On-Module
(ESM™) for this project.
Test Computers for
Subways and Streetcars
MEN supplies a French operator with diffe-
rent VMEbus computers for various testing
tasks on vehicles for urban public transport.
The operator inspects proper functioning
and safety-relevant components of systems
for driverless subways for its own fleet and
as a service for other operators. The vehicle
electronics for subways and streetcars is also
tested in the lab for electrical characteristics,
isolation and robustness.
Monitoring System for
Driverless Subways
One of the leading manufacturers of ATO
(Automated Train Operation) and safety
systems on trains uses standard 19“ systems
from MEN in different projects all over the
world. The redundant CompactPCI
®
compu-
ters in single Eurocard format consist of a
Application Examples
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