Brake HILS system for a railway vehicle

• US 9,892,217 B2
• Filed: 04/13/2015
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp
• Original Assignee: Konkuk University Industrial Cooperation Corp
• Inventors: Kang, Chul-Goo, Lee, Nam Jin, Lee, Dong-Chan
• Primary Examiner(s): Thangavelu, Kandasamy
• Application Number:
  US14/684,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20150294049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,037 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/665 the systems being specially adapted for transferring two or more command signals, e.g. railway systems B60T13/662 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/228 for railway vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2117/08 HW-SW co-design, e.g. HW-SW partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/15 Vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30

Abstract

Disclosed is a brake HILS system for a railway vehicle, comprising: a user terminal that receives values relating to braking conditions of a railway vehicle through a user interface and monitors simulation results; a pneumatic brake that includes an electronic control unit, a brake operation unit, a wheelset, a brake caliper, and a wheel slide protection valve and produces pneumatic pressure and transmits a braking force to the wheelset in accordance with the braking conditions from the user terminal; a load cell that is disposed on a wheel or a disc and measures a braking force from the pneumatic pressure; and a modeling unit that simulates the running and braking dynamic characteristics of a railway vehicle in real-time using mathematical models.

Claims

1. A brake HILS system for a railway vehicle, comprising:

a user terminal that receives values relating to braking conditions of a railway vehicle through a user interface and monitors simulation results;

a pneumatic brake that includes an electronic control unit, a brake operation unit, a wheelset, a brake caliper, and a wheel slide protection valve and produces pneumatic pressure and transmits a braking force to the wheelset in accordance with the braking conditions from the user terminal;

a load cell that is disposed on a wheel or a disc and measures a braking force from the pneumatic pressure;

a pressure sensor that measures pneumatic pressure and feeds back thereof; and

a modeling unit that simulates the running and braking dynamic characteristics of a railway vehicle in real-time using mathematical models,

wherein the modeling unit;

simulates in real-time a wheel slide protection function by producing different adhesive forces for wheelsets by changing a friction coefficient between a wheel and a rail in the vehicle running simulation;

feeds back to the electronic control unit at least one signal among four wheelset speeds, an emergency braking command, a brake mode signal, payload, and a brake command, corresponding to the simulation result for braking of the railway vehicle;

includes at least one parameter among a braking command, an emergency instruction, payload, a track inclination, a track friction coefficient, an adhesive coefficient, information about variable vehicle weight; and

simulates in real-time the braking dynamic characteristics of various railway vehicles by changing the parameters of railway vehicles.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic control unit calculates a braking force to be applied to the wheelset on the basis of an input braking condition and transmit the calculation result to the brake operation unit,

the brake operation unit produces pneumatic pressure corresponding to the calculation result and transmits the pneumatic pressure to the brake caliper on the wheelset, and

the brake caliper converts the pneumatic pressure to a braking force acting on the wheel.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the braking condition inputted to the user terminal includes at least one among a normal braking command, an emergency braking command, an emergency instruction, and payload.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the simulation result monitored through the user terminal includes at least one among a braking distance, a vehicle speed, a vehicle deceleration/acceleration, a rotational speed of the wheelset, and a braking force.