Prototype for Railway Infrastructure Monitoring using Lidar sensors, video image and GPS: First Results

by F. Goméz Bravo1, A. Vale2, J. Gomes-Mota2

1 Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Sistemas Informáticos y Automática.
Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Huelva. Carretera de Palos-La Rábida s/n. 21071 Huelva España.

2 ALBATROZ Engenharia, Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação,
Rua da Conceição 60,1º P-1100-154 Lisboa, Portugal

presented at XXVIII Jornadas de Automática of Universidad de Huelva, Spain, September 5th-7th, 2007. The seminar was organized by the Escuela Politécnica Superior and the Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática.

Paper in Spanish, published in the proceedings of the XXVIII Jornadas de Automática. ISBN: 978-84-690-749-8.

 

Abstract

This paper presents experimental results on the condition monitoring of railway infrastructure Data was obtained during trials performed with the audit train TALGO over high-speed railways from ADIF, Spain. Monitoring was performed in real-time using data from laser sensors, one video camera and one GPS receiver.

KeyWords

Sistemas de percepción, Fusión sensorial, Reconstrucción 3D, Segmentación de imágenes, Infraestructura ferroviaria.

 

 

 

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2D model of a railway tunnel.