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 GroupSafety 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 [email protected]+44 (0)1234 758374 +44 (0)7939 095572
Cranfield University, UK www.cranfield.ac.uk