Train position detecting device

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• A train position detecting device comprising:
• an absolute position guarantee range calculation part for calculating, based on a result of measurement of a position of a train by an absolute distance measuring sensor, an absolute position guarantee range that is an estimated range of a position of an end part of the train in consideration of a measurement error;
• a relative position guarantee range calculation part for calculating, based on a result of measurement of a position of the train by a relative distance measurement sensor that measures a relative distance from a measurement carried out previously, a relative position guarantee range that is an estimated range of a position of an end part of said train in consideration of a measurement error;
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• a position determination part that sets one of a train forward traveling direction and a train backward traveling direction to be a first direction and the other to be a second direction, and determines, between an end part of said absolute position guarantee range in the first direction and an end part of said relative position guarantee range in the first direction, a position of an end part on a positive side of the second direction to be a position of the end part of the train in the first direction,
• wherein said absolute position guarantee range includes an absolute front-end-position guarantee range that is an estimated range of a position of a front end part of the train,
• said relative position guarantee range includes a relative front-end-position guarantee range that is an estimated range of a position of the front end part of the train,
• said position determination part determines, between an end part of said absolute front-end-position guarantee range in the train forward traveling direction and an end part of said relative front-end-position guarantee range in the train forward traveling direction, a position of the end part on the positive side of the train backward traveling direction to be a position of the front end part of the train, and
• said relative position guarantee range calculation part accumulates a newly measured value by said relative distance measurement sensor and a measurement error thereof to a relative front-end-position guarantee-range initial value, which is said relative front-end-position guarantee range calculated based on the measurement result previously obtained by said relative distance measurement sensor, to calculate said relative front-end-position guarantee range, and when an end part of said relative front-end-position guarantee-range initial value in the train forward traveling direction is more on the positive side of the train forward traveling direction than the position of the front end part of the train previously determined by said position determination part, calculates said relative front-end-position guarantee range by using, as said relative front-end-position guarantee-range initial value, the position of the front end part of the train previously determined by said position determination part.