The proper assessment of railroad condition requires the consideration of a number of factors. Some factors, such as the condition of the ties, can be measured by inspecting features visible from the surface of the railway. Other factors, such as the condition of the ballast, require subsurface measurements. Extensive human resources are currently applied to the problem of evaluating railroad health. Here we present the results of a study in automatic railroad classification that combines surface and subsurface measurements to characterize the railroad condition. To obtain surface measurements, we generate a 3-D profile of the railroad surface with a vision system that employs a laser light stripe. Subsurface measurements were made using ground penetrating radar (GPR). Principal component analysis was used to reduce the dimension of the raw data. Classifiers were trained on the resulting data using both memory based and Bayesian methods. The results are presented.


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    Title :

    Automatic railway classification using surface and subsurface measurements


    Additional title:

    Automatische Eisenbahngleis-Klassifikation unter Einsatz ober- und unterirdischer Messungen


    Contributors:
    Kantor, G. (author) / Herman, H. (author) / Singh, S. (author) / Tabacchi, J. (author) / Kaufman, W. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 15 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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