This paper focuses on the online energy-saving operation control problem for passenger and freight trains running in a single-track railway line. Firstly, we design a centralised optimisation method to generate energy-saving reference profiles for both passenger and freight trains, in order to improve the punctuality of passenger trains and to reduce the total running time of freight trains in a central way. Secondly, we propose the distributed model predictive control (DMPC) based online trajectory optimisation problems for both types of trains, subject to their respective operational constraints including safety, punctuality, static speed limits and temporary speed restrictions. Then we formulate an online train operation control algorithm based on the centralised optimisation method for the initialisation of train trajectories and the DMPC method for the online trajectory planning. Finally, the proposed algorithm is applied to case studies of passenger and freight trains in a single track railway, and the numerical simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can realise online control for energy-saving train operation in the presence of input disturbances and temporary speed restrictions.


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    Title :

    Online Model Predictive Control for Energy-saving Train Operation in Passenger-Freight Mixed Lines


    Contributors:
    Dandan WANG (author) / Heng DENG (author) / Jingyuan ZHAN (author) / Liguo ZHANG (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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