Online Lecture Series »Radar in Action«  /  March 16, 2021, 14.00-14.30

Ballast Condition Assessment in modern railways using RADAR

Language: Englisch

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) system has become an attractive non-destructive inspection method for railway track monitoring and maintenance. In generally, this inspection is still mostly performed by visual observation and using cores in specific locations with both methods having clear limitations. In this research, we are evaluating novel processing algorithms for Railway track inspection based on a full-polarimetric high-resolution GPR system build at the FHR. On the other hand, simulation models are being refined to make them more reliable and accurate for training machine learning algorithms for an automatic track inspection.

Example of Simulations
Example of Simulations
Example of Measurements
Example of Measurements

Speaker:

Thoetphan Kingsuwannaphong, M.Sc. (RWTH Aachen)
Stefan Rümmler, M.Sc.

Topics:

  •  Motivation (Problem description and current solutions)
  • GPR capabilities and limitations. Project Goals.
  • Simulating realistic ballast conditions
  • Measuring ballast conditions on the Lab 

Target Group:

  • Customers, partners and interested parties from industry, politics, science and society
  • Specialists and managers, project managers and decision makers

Costs:

The participation in the event is free of charge.

Registartion:

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