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Wireless communication has been used within the railway industry for a long time. The railway standard for telecommunication (GSM-R), diagnostic and maintenance information for workshops, communication between the track based signal system and the train vehicle for safety related information are only a few examples. Within the control system in the railway vehicles, wireless communication has so far rarely been used since the requirements are very demanding. The railway vehicles also have a very tough electromagnetic interference environment due tohigh voltage and fast switching components.
The overall aim of the project is to evaluate the requirements on wireless communication in railway vehicles and to investigate possible technologies. One or more technologies will be chosen for testing in a railway vehicle environment, and the final result shall be wireless communication working together with the existing control system. The goal is to make the final tests in a real railway vehicle.
The project is carried out in cooperation between ADTRANZ and the Mechatronics lab at KTH. The topic of the project is closely related to ongoing research at the mechatronics lab in the field of embedded control systems; links to some of the research projects in this area can be from http://www.damek.kth.se/~martin
Distributed computer systems increasingly form the basis for embedded control systems. The investigation of wireless communications here is related to the interdisciplinary research area of mechatronics and includes at least aspects on
This project is carried out in the mechatronics specialization course at the Department of Ma-chine Design at KTH. This project, one of three this year, is done in cooperation with the ADTRANZ cooperation in Sweden. The Swedish project team is composed of 11 final year MSc. students and the project coach, Martin Törngren.
The project is divided into five phases, each containing a number of activities which may be different for the different phases. Cooperation with the other projects (MUCCA and TJALVE) will carried out for common themes such as project management, quality and documentation. Mats Hanson will coordinate these common activities.
The preliminary list of project phases includes: