Intelligent Train Engine & Track Crack Detection
Train accidents are becoming more and more on these days. Due to crack in the track and non-control speed of the train at station. This can be controlled by using an intelligent train engine and track crack detection.
Scope of project
The idea is whenever any engine observes a red signal on its track or it passes through magnetic gate or it detects the crack of track it will start decreasing its speed gradually and stops automatically. After then when it gets green signal the driver can manually start the train and go on. In the mean time when train has not stopped yet and a red signal becomes green then it crosses the signal pole with low speed and then driver can slowly increase the speed.
Description
What we have to do is we have to attach a transmitter with signal pole which will start transmitting signals only when the red light is on. If there is green light no transmission. Similarly the same transmitter is for Track monitoring circuit. The engine has a receiver which catches these transmitted signals and takes desire actions. And we use magnet/electromagnetic coil to generate magnetic field in the magnetic gate, whenever train passes through the gate , the magnetic switch energized and give the signal to microcontroller to take action.
Both the transmitter and receiver are of RF type with minimum range of 2 Km. Here in our project we have used IR transmitter and receiver instead of RF for demo purpose. But same idea can be easily implemented with RF also with a little more cost.