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Networked Anti-Collision devices Raksha Kavach Safety shield for Railway users and Saathi Friend for drivers, guards

10 October 2011. Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach. 2. Vision Statement. Indian Railways will be free of collisions of trains at high speeds Prevent loss of lifeSave railway assetsIn the most Cost-effective mannerWithin 3 years. . 10 October 2011. Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach. 3. Goal and Objective. Protect lives of railway passengers and assets from collisions between trainsDevelop and prove micro-processor based devicesFor locomotiveFor guard-vehicleFor stationWhich interact in a network t20

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Networked Anti-Collision devices Raksha Kavach Safety shield for Railway users and Saathi Friend for drivers, guards

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    1. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 1 Networked Anti-Collision devices Raksha Kavach Safety shield for Railway users and Saathi (Friend) for drivers, guards & station masters

    2. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 2 Vision Statement Indian Railways will be free of collisions of trains at high speeds Prevent loss of life Save railway assets In the most Cost-effective manner Within 3 years.

    3. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 3 Goal and Objective Protect lives of railway passengers and assets from collisions between trains Develop and prove micro-processor based devices For locomotive For guard-vehicle For station Which interact in a network to prevent moving trains colliding with each other at dangerous speeds Acting automatically independent of human actions

    4. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 4 Todays Situation The railway operation today suffers from a fundamental lacuna that it is a SIGNALLED system- and the single point failure is built in drivers human actions At stations failure to read signal can be disastrous: signals costing millions of rupees cannot directly CONTROL ! In block section, driver has to drive BLINDLY till he approaches next signal, on TRUST ! He has no way to know what is ahead 3 km- to be able to stop to prevent collision

    5. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 5 How Did We Get Here? Concentration at stations to make setting of routes and signalling free from human failures gave protection to station staff Driver with his own life on firing line- trained & relied upon to observe SIGNAL as sacrosanct-and driving in block section at the HIGHEST speed on trust taken for granted. Double line sections, derailments causing obstructions/ non-interlocked working despatching trains on wrong lines, high density routes with stressed drivers missing signals make railway accident prone NOW!

    6. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 6 Available Options Centralised traffic control and train control systems available- but very expensive vital two way communication all along routes to central control is a must. Even advanced railways find it expensive. ACD system is loco mounted and provides distributed control system The most cost effective solution is our development of ACD. How things developHow things develop

    7. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 7 We will cover: Development of ACD Philosophy of ACD Test Results Identify action items

    8. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 8 Solution.

    9. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 9 Simply put the ACD anti-collision Device, networked, is an intelligent interactive unit: can be understood as..

    10. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 10 Imagine In dark space our ACD constantly looks for another ACD,within range equal to braking distance required for relative speed,- they communicate with each other- identify and if they happen to be having same track identification and are moving towards each other automatically restrain and stop each other!

    11. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 11 Even if the ACD finds the other one on different track, if one of them is exhibiting unusual behaviour- the ACD moving at high speed restrains and reduces speed until the normal situation is confirmed.

    12. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 12 Head on collision avoided

    13. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 13 Avoiding side collision

    14. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 14 Avoid rear end collision

    15. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 15 Anti- Collision Device Invented by Mr.B.Rajaram then MD/Konkan Railway. First experimental prototypes proven in December 1999 Commercial prototypes jointly tested with RDSO and cleared June 2001

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    19. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 19 Objective of ACD network Prevent dangerous collisions in midsection and at stations at high speeds. Be additional safety shield- and does not replace any existing systems of safety

    20. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 20 Success of meeting the objective ACD when mounted on loco with the ABU can Stop all mid-section collisions Prevents high speed collisions in station areas With another ACD fitted moving train unit Hence ACD has proven to meet the objectives as defined.

    21. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 21 Challenge: self identification of, on which track , loco is moving.

    22. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 22 Observations Deviation Count theory, when data from GPS is available, is proven to work without failure to arrive at track ID automatically Where the station, after survey for GPS reception and layout peculiarity, is found to be not amenable for auto ID through Deviation count theory, train is made to leave with Track ID failure flag at FULL speed, until it discovers another approaching train within 3 km, when both the trains are slowed down to 25 kmph , and if they cross without event, the correct track IDs are allocated, and trains proceed normally at full speed.

    23. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 23 Deviation Count: new innovative approach The theory is basically un-exceptional and has proven itself for all data on points and crossing between speeds of 1 kmph to 55 kmph Reversals of movements also detected. For normal running trains without shunting, negotiating points and crossings at speeds more than 1kmph , which is the normal, Deviation Count works. ACD also ensures that excessive unsafe speed will not be allowed on points and crossings.

    24. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 24 Proven performance The benefit: accidents of following nature will be prevented: In block section: Head on collisions Side collisions Rear end collisions Station area Head on and rear collisions between trains at speeds higher than 25 kmph

    25. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 25 Success norms for ACD:

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    34. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 34 Redundancies though not a vital system There are 4 microprocessor units when two trains come within 3 kilometers. When loco ACD fails In communication then the guard ACD conveys to other train the line ID info- but cannot stop train as auto braking unit cannot be activated. As the ACD has same level of reliability of other control systems in loco, whether failure of ACD can be treated as failure of loco- because it is expected to be as rare if not better, than a normal loco failure item ; is a matter for decision Spare ACD kept at next junction station- to replace the defective one.

    35. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 35 Fail-safe feature: if train leaves with no track ID

    36. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 36 Fear of theft of Repeaters for radio communication:

    37. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 37 Reliability and availability concerns Well proven internationally available solid state devices with due endurance tests are used The chips/motherboard , wireless modems,power supply, systems are all tested for accelerated ageing Software tested repeats performance without fail irrespective of the number of repetitions Self-diagnostics ensure by design, self declaration if defective

    38. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 38 Safety shield

    39. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 39 Flexible & scalable

    40. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 40 What ACD does: makes loco intelligent Makes locomotive intelligent and self-protective!

    41. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 41 SAATHI Companion & Friend True friend of the driver: when tired and in-attentive, alerts him When dangerous situation arises automatically controls the train doing his job Extends the drivers vision by 3 km to provide DOORDRISHTI even in fog Empowers driver to even remotely control the approaching train, if required.

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    43. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 43 Two out of two intelligent units must agree to allow trains to cross.

    44. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 44 Transform vulnerable optical signalled system into protected auto-controlled system

    45. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 45 What we need to do, to have Raksha Kavach

    46. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 46 Survey and Design work The following surveys have to be completed: GPS survey for the entire railway route Radio reception survey for the route Station yard survey for deviation count profiling All gates are to be surveyed for ACD reception.

    47. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 47 Way forward-future capabilities of ACD network System provides at any given time FOUR intelligent microprocessor units within 3km range when two trains approach each other Auto driving of trains can be programmed.. ACD becomes vital ! Can upgrade network into moving block system- productivity multiplies

    48. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 48 Wide area networked management information system On-board computer systems on trains interact with the ones at stations, which in turn communicate with central systems facilitating Real time monitoring of trains and control Complete rolling stock/loco management Provide customer tracking information

    49. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 49 Progressively fixed signals are made redundant Provides cab signalling indicating permissible speeds and controls automatically giving instant relevant information Acts automatically, driving and controlling trains: driver a mere witnessing supervisor to intervene in exception

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    51. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 51 ACD network provides Intellelligent Transport System of the new millenium

    52. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 52 SATDHAM SAFETY SYSTEM (SSS) SSS at Station is Designed to perform :- Electronic Interlocking Radio based Cab Signalling As Intelligent Data Acquisition System & Interface with the RMS SSS comprises of :- Station Controller (SC ) Interlocking Controller (IC ) SC at the Center & two ICs at either ends of the Stations are networked through an OFC ring

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    54. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 54 ACD units at stations network and operate and set the routes, decisions based on knowledge and analysis- eliminating the track based equipment totally , except for the point machines!

    55. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 55 Anti- Collision Device to Auto-Protect Aircraft and Tall Towers We can Protect Tall Buildings from Terrorist attacks

    56. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 56 The ACDs will detect at 5km each other & cause the plane to avoid the tower

    57. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 57 Even flying aircraft fitted with ACDs.. By mistake in case two aircraft are approaching too close, ACDs of both aircraft will intervene to protect

    58. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 58 ACDs will help protect runway for take off and landing Every single vehicle plying on the service access areas will be fitted with ACD. In continuous contact with central control Once a runway is nominated , the ACD fitted road vehicle will not be allowed to come near the runway. Similarly a taxing aircraft will not be allowed by the ACD to go near a runway nominated for another aircrafts use.

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    60. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 60 Moving Towards Intelligent Transport System With Utmost Safety the ACD (Knowledge Embedded device) Technologies replace current Signaling Systems by Revolutionary Signalling & Interlocking Technology which help improve safety & efficiency and reduce cost of ownership for railways.

    61. 10 October 2011 Konkan Railway Raksha Kavach 61 A paradigm shift in train control and management for the new millennium. Trains will have only TWO ACD units one on loco and one on the last vehicle Stations will have THREE ACD units Knowledge and intelligence of the networked ACDs create the new millenniums intelligent transport system Trains and stations become intelligent and input from track is limited to points and crossings status only.

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