Rail defects, especially transverse defects (TDs), can pose risks to safe and efficient railroad operations. Effective rail defect detection is critical for the prevention of broken rail-induced accidents and derailments. In this study, a deep autoencoder (DAE) rail defect detection framework is developed to process ultrasonic A-scan data collected by a roller search unit and to identify the presence of TDs in rail samples. An autoencoder is a semi-supervised learning algorithm that identifies observations in a dataset that significantly deviate from the remaining observations and can be used for rail defect detection. Ultrasonic A-scan signals collected from both pristine and damaged rail segments are analyzed, where the pristine dataset is used to train a DAE model. To improve the accuracy and sensitivity of defect detection, we optimize the architecture and hyperparameters of the DAE model. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of two features extracted from the DAE model through receiver operating characteristic curves and confusion matrix. The DAE features outperformed conventional knowledge-driven features in the accuracy and robustness of defect detection, especially with the presence of noise.


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    Title :

    Rail Defect Detection Using Ultrasonic A-Scan Data and Deep Autoencoder


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Wu, Yuning (author) / Zhu, Xuan (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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