Profile Calibration of Dynamically Measuring Rail Wear Using LIS

Chao Wang*, Yanfu Li, Dawei Liu, Hongli Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Dynamically inspecting steel rail wear by the laser image system suffers from vibrations on the camera and the laser emitter, which leads to varying extrinsic camera parameters and distorted rail profile, respectively. In the paper, a novel profile calibrating method is presented to address these issues. This method involves a self-calibration of the extrinsic camera parameters, which is based on the coordinate sets projection constructed from the distorted profile to the standard one on quadruple projecting primitives including rail jaw, railhead, rail waist, and foot intersection. To remove the effect of random vibrations, we calibrate distorted profile by projecting it onto the plane x − y of the world coordinate frame. We compared our procedure with other established methods. The results show its effectiveness and superiority for dynamically measuring rail wear.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, EITRT 2017 - Transportation
EditorsLimin Jia, Min An, Jianguo Suo, Jianghua Feng, Yong Qin, Lijun Diao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages37-45
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9789811079887
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event3rd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, EITRT 2017 - Changsha, China
Duration: 20 Oct 201722 Oct 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume483
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, EITRT 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangsha
Period20/10/1722/10/17

Keywords

  • Coordinate sets projection
  • Laser image system
  • Profile calibration
  • Rail wear

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