International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 10 Issue: 08 | Aug 2023
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Experimental Study of Railway Track Crack Detection Using Arduino Ramya C R1, Abhishek Y2, Karan Mahalatkar3, Stephen FS4 1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, PES Institute of Technology, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India 2,3,4 Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, PES Institute of Technology, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
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Abstract - Railway transportation in Indian service is the
most economical and convenient media of passenger transport for long distance and as well for suburban traffic. More than 80% of the transport used in India by railway network. The main reason for most of the accidents taking place in railways, most of time is due to public crossing the railway track and unnoticed damage or crack in rail tracks. More than 60% accidents taking place at railway track are due to unidentified crack in the track of rail resulting in loss of precious life of travelers and damages caused. From the present study, there is a demand to have other alternate solution in which, technology is more efficient, robust and also stable for finding the crack in track as well as for object detection. In the present design, we are trying to search for a familiar technology which helps at designing and developing new modernized railway crack detection scheme (RCDS) using which IR SENSOR with other assembly parts helps to find and detect cracks and prevent the train accidents by easily finding the cracks and other obstacles on the ways of railway tracks. An Arduino based Microcontroller is a technology which we are focusing to control and coordinate the cracks on the track which will save several trains in India from accidents and other types of incidents from the rail track. Key Words: Motor, Arduino, IR Sensor, RoboBot, Wheels
1. INTRODUCTION In India, the track length of railway network is 113,617 kilometers (70,598 mi) and a route of 63,974 kilometers (39,752 mi) over 7,083 stations which is the fourth largest network of the entire railway network in the world. In India, Rail transport is growing at a faster rate. It is one of the major modes of transport but still our facilities is not that accurate, safer as compared to international standards?. A survey on the browser, states that around 60% of all the accidents in railways are due to derailments. Recent measurements shows that about 90% of accidents are due to railway cracks Hence, it is not safer for Human Life which needs to be overlooked with utmost attention. The proposed system has a robot which will run automatically on the tracks. As there is fast development taking place in Indian Railways, high-speed trains are increased and rail transportation has become a day to day need. Most of the people make use of railway for moving from one place to another, it is necessary for transferring the passengers and goods from one place to another. And also, the railway system is providing facility © 2023, IRJET
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such as high speed, with economical, environment friendly, safety, and better characteristics of railway systems. These nature and characteristics can be overdriven by time-to-time maintenance and control system measurements. But depending on different factors, deformations and derailment may occur on the superstructure of railways. The derailments and some of the other problems of railway system such as improper maintenance, irregular and manual track line monitoring mistake from workers. Such derailment and deformation are determining very offenly and hence forth taking precautions is very much important for the preventive and safety of railway systems. Therefore, solution for this problem is adopted in the present work.
2. OBJECTIVES: In India, railways are one of the widely used and busiest network in the world which is nearly covering track network of 1, 27,000 sq.km. More than 2/3rd of the Indian population uses the railway network for fulfilling their daily work. Around 60% of the train accidents are occurring due to the railway track crossing and which results in the crack of railway tracks causing loss of precious life and loss of economy. The very purpose and objective of the present system is to detect the tracks and avoid the future incidents like accidents. The defect in crack can be found out easily and the preventive measures will be taken immediately. The proposed system not only replaces the human inspection but also is beneficial in terms of time and money , makes the inspection very much easier and accurate. Basically, the workings of the present system start with motor initiation. Firstly, the motor of the system starts, which sends the signal and actuates the ultrasonic sensor. Ultrasonic/IR sensor is used to detect the cracks in the track. Hence, the operation of the motor is to drive the vehicle forward. IR sensor does the operation such as scanning and finding the large cracks and obstacles on the track, such that when the crack is detected, it will stop moving the vehicle.
2. Components and specifications: 2.1 Arduino Uno Arduino system is an open- source easily accessible programmable circuit board which is based on easy-to-use hardware as well as software. Figure 1 is an Arduino-uno.It is centered on ATmega328. Arduino Uno has 14 digital input/output pins, 6 analog inputs pins with also USB connection, a power jack with ICSP header and a reset button. ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal
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