Gradient information acquisition method, storage medium, gradient information acquisition device and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9778065-B2
Application number	US-201214374040-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2012
Priority date	Jan 27, 2012
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is a gradient information acquisition method comprising: a speed measured value acquisition step in which a measured value of the speed of a rail vehicle is acquired; a speed calculation step in which a calculated value of the speed of said vehicle is found using an equation of movement including a parameter indicating the gradient of the path of travel of said rail vehicle; a parameter value acquisition step in which a parameter value is found of a function indicating said gradient, for which parameter the difference of said measured value of the speed and said calculated value of the speed is a minimum; and a gradient information acquisition step of finding the gradient of said path of travel, based on the parameter value of the function indicating said gradient that was acquired in said parameter value acquisition step.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gradient information acquisition method, comprising:
a speed measurement value acquiring step of acquiring a measurement value of a speed of a railroad vehicle;
a speed calculating step of obtaining a calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle using an equation of motion which simulates traveling of the railroad vehicle along a travel route, the equation of motion including a function representing a topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle, and the function representing the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle including an adjustable parameter value;
a parameter value acquiring step of acquiring, using a non-linear optimization technique, a value of the adjustable parameter value minimizing a difference between (i) the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle and (ii) the measurement value of the speed of the railroad vehicle; and
a gradient information acquiring step of acquiring the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle based on the value of the adjustable parameter value acquired in the parameter value acquiring step,
wherein in the speed calculating step, a track design value of the topological gradient of a travel route of the railroad vehicle is used as an initial value of the adjustable parameter value to obtain the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle.

2. The gradient information acquisition method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the speed measuring step further comprises
a speedometer measurement value acquiring step of acquiring the measurement value of the speed of the railroad vehicle by a speedometer;
a traveling time acquiring step of acquiring information of a time at which the railroad vehicle travels at a certain position; and
a speedometer measurement value correcting step of correcting the measurement value of the speedometer based on data acquired in the traveling time acquiring step and obtaining the measurement value of the speed of the railroad vehicle.

3. The gradient information acquisition method according to claim 1 , further comprising,
a zone deciding step of deciding a zone in which a gradient is obtained by the gradient information acquisition method in a travel route of a gradient acquisition target.

4. The gradient information acquisition method according to claim 3 ,
wherein, in the zone deciding step, the zone in which the gradient is obtained by the gradient information acquisition method is decided in both directions of the travel route of the gradient acquisition target.

5. A gradient information acquisition device, comprising:
a speed measurement value acquiring unit configured to acquire a measurement value of a speed of a railroad vehicle;
a speed calculating unit configured to obtain a calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle using an equation of motion which simulates traveling of the railroad vehicle along a travel route, the equation of motion including a function representing a topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle, and the function representing the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle including an adjustable parameter value;
a parameter value acquiring unit configured to acquire, using a non-linear optimization technique, a value of the adjustable parameter value minimizing a difference between (i) the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle and (ii) the measurement value of the speed of the railroad vehicle; and
a gradient information acquiring unit configured to acquire the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle based on the value of the adjustable parameter value acquired by the parameter value acquiring unit,
wherein the speed calculating unit obtains the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle using a track design value of the topological gradient of a travel route of the railroad vehicle as an initial value of the adjustable parameter value.

6. A non-transitory computer recording medium having stored thereon a program causing a computer functioning as a gradient information acquisition device to execute:
a speed measuring step of acquiring a measurement value of a speed of a railroad vehicle;
a speed calculating step of obtaining a calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle using an equation of motion which simulates traveling of the railroad vehicle along a travel route, the equation of motion, the equation of motion including a function representing a topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle, and the function representing the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle including an adjustable parameter value;
a parameter value acquiring step of acquiring, using a non-linear optimization technique, a value of the adjustable parameter value minimizing a difference between (i) the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle and (ii) the measurement value of the speed of the railroad vehicle; and
a gradient information acquiring step of acquiring the topological gradient of the travel route of the railroad vehicle based on the value of the adjustable parameter value acquired in the parameter value acquiring step,
wherein in the speed calculating step, a track design value of the topological gradient of a travel route of the railroad vehicle is used as an initial value of the adjustable parameter value to obtain the calculation value of the speed of the railroad vehicle.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Yanai Noritaka
• Takaki Hiroyuki
• Niinomi Toshihiko
• Suzuki Yasuyuki

Classifications

• B61L23/048

  Road bed changes, e.g. road bed erosion · CPC title

• B61L99/00

  Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G01C23/00 Primary

  Combined instruments indicating more than one navigational value, e.g. for aircraft; Combined measuring devices for measuring two or more variables of movement, e.g. distance, speed or acceleration · CPC title

• B61K9/08 Primary

  Measuring installations for surveying permanent way · CPC title

• B61L23/047

  Track or rail movements · CPC title