AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems

Andrew Starr

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Welcome

Contents

• Introduction to TES Institute and Cranfield rail group

• Introduction to AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems

• Challenges ahead

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Through-life Engineering Services Institute

EPSRC National

Centre for

Innovative

Manufacturing in

Through-life

Engineering

Services

Integrated Vehicle

Health

Management

Centre

TESI

core staff

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Cranfield Rail Group

• Technical

• Safety and behaviour

• Business

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Rail group - Technical

• Heat dissipation from brake discs

• Diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance planning for electro-mechanical systems

• Air quality monitoring using optical fibre sensors

• Complex Systems for optimizing rail networks

• Diagnosis, condition monitoring and prognosis for machines; motors, gears, generators;

• Rail monitoring with optical fibre grating sensors

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Tramway deployment of FBG sensors

Instrumented fishplate

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Rail Group Safety and behaviour

• Passenger Safety Research: perceptions of risk and safety on the railway network

• Passenger safety in rail crashes

• Passenger information requirements in safety related situations on the railway network

• Driving Research Group: working with the private and public sector on driver behaviour.

• Human factors in rail and road safety.

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Rail Group - Business

• Transaction costs within rail firms; franchised train operating firms in Britain; benchmarking of train operating firms; deregulation and globalisation;

• Competition between air transport and high-speed rail in Japan

• Environmental impacts

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AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems

• Part of the Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Programme

• Integrating:

- Data fusion and mobile platforms

- Planning and scheduling

- Cost analysis

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Our team

Andrew Starr,

Professor of Maintenance

Systems, Head of

Integrated Maintenance

Centre

Antonios Tsourdos,

Professor of Informatics and

Systems Engineering, Head

of Autonomous Systems

Group,

Ashutosh Tiwari,

Professor of Manufacturing

Informatics, Head of

Product and Service

Innovation Centre

Dr Essam Shehab,

Senior Lecturer in

Decision Engineering

Dr Christopher Turner,

Research Fellow

Dr Paul Baguley,

Research Fellow in

Cost Engineering

Dr Yuchun Xu,

Lecturer in Cost

Engineering

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AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems - structure

Foundations

Validation

Applications

Design

Integration Data fusion and mobile platforms

Planning and Scheduling

Cost Analysis

Think-tank

Definitions

Design

strategy

Fusion

strategy

Fusion case

studies

Monitoring

design

strategy

Reporting

architecture

Identify

business

processes

Optimisation

framework

Validation

Best practice

cost

modelling

Models

Frameworks

for integration

and benefits

Validation

Partner

benefits

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No Fault Found

• Switch machines

• Track circuits

• Doors

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Data rich problems

• Location:

• Fixed beacon (balise)

• Moving sensors

• Ultrasonic

• Laser

• Terabytes per day

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Data poor problems

• Old structures

• Difficult, infrequent inspections

• Very old records

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Challenges

• Requirements for interchange of maintenance data between fixed and mobile actors

• Automation of monitoring on mobile platforms, and interface with other actors

• New cost modelling tools for complex distributed health monitoring, and value to the business.

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Contacts

Thank you for your attention.

Andrew Starr a.starr@cranfield.ac.uk +44 (0)1234 758374 +44 (0)7939 095572

Cranfield University, UK www.cranfield.ac.uk