METHOD AND TRACK MAINTENANCE MACHINE FOR CORRECTION OF TRACK POSITION ERRORS

• US 20190316300A1
• Filed: 10/09/2017
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Plasser & Theurer- Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen, Gesellschaft M.b.h.
• Original Assignee: Plasser & Theurer- Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen, Gesellschaft M.b.h.
• Inventors: AUER, FLORIAN
• Granted Patent: US 11,174,598 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 2203/10 Track-lifting or-lining devices or methods
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 27/17 combined with means for lifting, levelling or slewing the track
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 29/04 Lifting or levelling of tracks lifting devices in general B66F
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 35/00 Applications of measuring apparatus or devices for track-building purposes apparatus on locomotives or cars to indicate or record bad track sections B61K9/00; measuring angles, linear dimensions, or irregularities in general G01B, G01C
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 35/08 for levelling

Abstract

A method for the correction of vertical position error of a track by a track tamping machine and a dynamic track stabilizer. Starting from a registered actual position, an over-lift value is prescribed for a treated track location with which the track is lifted into a preliminary over-lift track position and tamped. The track is subsequently lowered by dynamic stabilization into a resulting final track position. In this, a smoothed actual position course is formed from a course of the actual track position, wherein an over-lift value is prescribed for the treated track location in dependence of the course of the actual track position with regard to the smoothed actual position course. In this way, only short-wave track faults are treated with an over-lift value.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A method of correcting vertical position faults of a track, the method comprising:

measuring an actual track position;

forming a smoothed actual position course from a course of the actual track position;

starting from the actual track position, prescribing an over-lift value for a given track location being treated in dependence on a course of the actual track position with regard to the smoothed actual position course;

lifting the track into a preliminary over-lift track position defined by the over-lift value of the given track location and tamping the track with a track tamping machine; and

subsequently lowering the track by dynamic stabilization with a dynamic track stabilizer into a resulting final track position.

14. The method according to claim 13, which comprises, subsequent to the dynamic stabilization, detecting residual fault values with a re-measuring system, and prescribing the over-lift value for a currently treated track location in dependence of at least one residual fault value.

15. The method according to claim 13, which comprises determining the smoothed actual position course from the course of the actual track position by way of a low-pass filter.

16. The method according to claim 13, which comprises determining local maxima of the course of the actual track position by way of the smoothed actual position course.

17. The method according to claim 16, which comprises forming a polygon which connects local maxima of the stored course of the actual track position.

18. The method according to claim 13, which comprises determining a wavelength for the vertical position faults from the course of the actual track position, and prescribing the overlift value also in dependence on the wavelength.

19. The method according to claim 13, determining a deviation value for the given track location from the course of the actual track position with regard to the smoothed actual position course and forming the overlift value by multiplying the deviation value by an overlift factor.

20. The method according to claim 19, which comprises iteratively adapting the overlift factor while taking into account a residual fault value of the track detected after the dynamic stabilization has taken place.

21. The method according to claim 20, which comprises detecting the residual fault value is detected at a track location with a local minimum of the course of the original actual track position.

22. The method according to claim 21, which comprises adding the residual fault value detected at a track location and the overlift value applied at the track location to form a sum value, and, for prescribing a new overlift factor, dividing the deviation value originally present at this track location by the sum value.

23. The method according to claim 22, which comprises using several residual fault values detected one after another for determining the new overlift factor.

24. A track maintenance machine for correction of vertical position errors of a track, the track maintenance machine comprising:

a track tamping machine for lifting and tamping the track; and

a dynamic track stabilizer for dynamically stabilizing the track; and

an evaluation device and a control device configured for executing the method according to claim 13.