System for working on a track
AssigneePlasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorThomas Philipp
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Abstract
A system for working on a track with a track maintenance machine has a machine controller and a work unit controlled thereby, with sensors being arranged to monitor the work unit. In this context, the sensors are coupled to a data acquisition module for the separate recording of sensor data, with the data acquisition module being connected to a computing unit in which a first algorithm for calculating result data from the sensor data is set up. In this way, the system contains additional structural components for processing sensor signals. With the data acquisition module and the computing unit, different evaluations of the working mode can be performed independently of an existing monitoring function.
Claims13
A system for working on a track, comprising:
- a track maintenance machine containing:
- a machine controller;
- a work unit controlled by said machine controller;
- sensors disposed to monitor said work unit and outputting sensor data;
- a data acquisition module, said sensors are coupled to said data acquisition module for a separate recording of the sensor data resulting in data acquisition sensor data;
- a monitor for monitoring said work unit, said monitor recording the sensor data at a lower sampling rate than said data acquisition module resulting in monitoring sensor data, the monitoring sensor data being used to monitor a wear progression of said work unit;
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- a computer, said data acquisition module connected to said computer for calculating result data from the data acquisition sensor data captured by said data acquisition module.
The system according to 1, wherein said computer is coupled to said machine controller to automatically specify working parameters.
A method for operating a system for working on a track, the system having a track maintenance machine with a machine controller, a work unit controlled by the machine controller, sensors disposed to monitor the work unit, a data acquisition module, a monitor and a computer, which comprises the steps of:
- generating sensor signals for monitoring the work unit by means of the sensors;
- supplying the sensor signals to the data acquisition module for separate sensor data recording resulting in data acquisition sensor data;
- calculating result data from the data acquisition sensor data recorded by the data acquisition module by means of said computer, the result data containing parameters of a work sequence and transmitting the parameters to the machine controller:
- monitoring the work unit via the monitor, the monitor recording the sensor signals at a lower sampling rate than the data acquisition module resulting in monitoring sensor data;
- using the monitoring sensor data to monitor a wear progression of the working unit;
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- operating the work unit based on the parameters calculated resulting in a higher-level closed loop control system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.