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    Fault-tolerant control for sensor faults affecting an electromechanical railway track switch

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    Mwongera, Precious K / Midgley, Will J / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2023
    and tested on a simulation model of the system, before being applied to an experimental actuation system in the laboratory. Both the ...

    Optimal intermittent electrification and its effect on battery sizing and energy saving using a high-fidelity train model

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    Abduraxman, Bilal M / Harrison, Tim / Ward, Christopher P et al. | SAGE Publications | 2023
    The fastest way to decarbonise traction energy of a railway network is full electrification of the network. However, full electrification ...

    Development and control of a rail vehicle model to reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions

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    Harrison, Tim J / Midgley, William JB / Goodall, Roger M et al. | SAGE Publications | 2021
    The development, validation and control of a bi-mode train model is presented. A detailed modular model of a United Kingdom Class 800 train ...

    Improving the reliability and availability of railway track switching by analysing historical failure data and introducing functionally redundant subsystems

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Goodall, Roger M / Dixon, Roger et al. | SAGE Publications | 2018
    , the aeronautical and nuclear industries. This paper models the adoption of a functional redundancy approach to the functional subsystems of ...

    Rethinking rail track switches for fault tolerance and enhanced performance

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    Bemment, Samuel D / Ebinger, Emma / Goodall, Roger M et al. | SAGE Publications | 2017
    laboratory. Details of the novel arrangement and concept are provided herein. This concept is considered as an advance on the state of the art. This ...