Optical rail gage/wear system
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1. Apparatus for the non-contact measurement of rail parameters, comprising:
- means for illuminating at least one of the left and right rails of a track;
means for detecting a selected portion of light reflected from at least one of the left and right rails and generating video signals representative thereof;
said means for illuminating and said means for detecting being mounted for movement along said rails; and
means for processing said video signals to determine at least one of the gage and wear of said rails using a repetitive frame scanning pattern formed by a grid of lines perpendicular to the profile of said rails with each line including a number of pixels, and including means for determining a line and the location of a pixel therein representative of at least a gage point on the gage face of at least one of said left and right rails for selected frames of said repetitive frame scanning pattern.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the gage and/or wear of railroad tracks in which optical scanning techniques are used in conjuction with a programmable computer for determining the gage and/or wear of the rails.
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1. Apparatus for the non-contact measurement of rail parameters, comprising:
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means for illuminating at least one of the left and right rails of a track; means for detecting a selected portion of light reflected from at least one of the left and right rails and generating video signals representative thereof; said means for illuminating and said means for detecting being mounted for movement along said rails; and means for processing said video signals to determine at least one of the gage and wear of said rails using a repetitive frame scanning pattern formed by a grid of lines perpendicular to the profile of said rails with each line including a number of pixels, and including means for determining a line and the location of a pixel therein representative of at least a gage point on the gage face of at least one of said left and right rails for selected frames of said repetitive frame scanning pattern. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for the non-contact measurement of rail parameters, comprising:
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illuminating at least one of the left and right rails of a track; detecting a selected portion of light reflected from at least one of the left and right rails and generating video signals representative thereof; moving the illumination and detection along said track; processing said video signals to determine at least one of the gage and wear of said rails using a repetitive frame scanning pattern formed by a grid of lines perpendicular to the profile of said rails with each line including a number of pixels; and determining a line and the location of a pixel therein representative of at least a gage point on the gage face of at least one of said left and right rails for selected frames of said repetitive frame scanning pattern. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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