KR101708338B1 - Monitoring system for train operation - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for monitoring an operation of a train. The system for monitoring an operation of a train comprises: a risk information collection unit which collects risk information from an operation monitoring server, a power monitoring server, a communication monitoring server, and a railroad-side monitoring server, i.e., servers for monitoring of an operation of a train; a risk information analysis unit which receives the risk information collected by the risk information collection unit, which extracts risk indices, and which sets risk steps based on the extracted risk indices; and a risk information monitoring unit which receives the risk steps set by the risk information analysis unit, which monitors a risk state of the operation of the train, and which performs control. Accordingly, information collected by the servers and related to the operation of the train can be controlled and processed in an integrated manner, thereby monitoring the operation of the train. Furthermore, pieces of information related to an accident of a train can be selected and received from sensors, and the received pieces of information can be systematically combined in order to predict occurrence of an accident of the train, thus, an operation of the train can be efficiently monitored.

Description

{MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TRAIN OPERATION}

The present invention relates to a train operation monitoring system.

The railway system is composed of a complex combination of sub-systems such as railway cars, train services, power facilities, communication and mechanical facilities, and railway facilities. For the safe operation of such a railway system, the subsystems of the railway system should be operated normally, and the personnel of the related personnel of the railway system must be accompanied.

In one example, a train operation monitoring system for safe operation of a railway system is configured as shown in FIG. 1 to monitor a railway system. The railway operation monitoring server 100 monitors the operation information of a railway vehicle, A communication monitoring server 120 for monitoring the communication state of the railway vehicle, and a line side monitoring server 130 for monitoring the lines around the railway vehicle.

At this time, the operation monitoring server 100 monitors the signal control of the field and the train operation on the basis of the train operation schedule, and displays information through the operation monitoring screen 101 and provides various control functions.

The power monitoring server 110 monitors the state of the substation of the line and the power supply state of the railway vehicle, and displays information through the power monitoring screen 111 or provides various control functions.

The communication monitoring server 120 monitors the operation state of the communication equipment for performing voice communication or data communication and displays information through the communication monitoring screen 121. The line monitoring server 130 monitors the information Monitors the line side and displays the information through the line side monitoring screen (131).

In addition, the vehicle monitoring apparatus 140 formed on the railway vehicle monitors the running state of the railway vehicle and displays a monitoring screen on a display device formed inside the railway vehicle.

As described above with reference to FIG. 1, the train operation monitoring system separately configures and monitors each of the servers 100, 110, 120, and 130 so that the operation of the railway vehicle, the power of the railway vehicle, There is a limit to prevent an accident by monitoring an accident or an error that may occur due to an organic connection before an accident.

2, the control data of each of the servers 100, 110, 120, and 130 is stored in the same place as the train operation monitoring screen 210, the power monitoring screen 220, A screen 230, and a machine and communication facility monitoring screen 240 to collectively check the information necessary to monitor the railway vehicle operation and control the system using the control console screen 250 It was proposed.

However, even in the case of having the structure as shown in FIG. 2, it is also possible to provide a configuration for information exchange for the organic operation of each of the servers 100, 110, 120, and 130, There is a limit that is not effective in preventing an accident.

Therefore, there is a need for a surveillance system that can prevent an accident of a railway vehicle caused by a complex cause by transmitting information from each server.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a railway vehicle control system for a railway vehicle, which selectively collects information related to an accident from various servers for monitoring the operation of a railway vehicle, And to provide a train operation monitoring system capable of ensuring safe operation.

A train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a traffic monitoring server, a power monitoring server, a communication monitoring server, and a risk information collecting unit Collecting section; A risk information analyzer for receiving the information collected by the risk information collector and extracting a risk index and setting a risk level from the extracted risk index; And a risk information monitoring unit that receives the risk level set by the risk information analysis unit and monitors the dangerous state of the train operation and controls the train operation, And the operation of the train is monitored.

In this case, the risk information collecting unit receives operational monitoring information, power monitoring information, communication monitoring information, and line monitoring information from a plurality of servers, respectively.

The risk information collection unit extracts and collects information necessary for monitoring the train operation from the information collected from the plurality of servers.

The risk information collection unit may further include an information selection module to extract a part of the information necessary for monitoring the train operation and the information selection module extracts information designated in the selection attribute file stored in the risk information collection unit .

The information sorting module is input from the outside and stored in the risk information collecting unit, and the designation of the information to be extracted is changed to be added or deleted.

The risk information collecting unit further includes an information property file for receiving and storing information related to the train operation monitoring from the outside, and the information property file is received from an authorized user and stored.

The risk information analyzing module includes a risk analysis module that receives information from the risk information collecting unit and analyzes the relevance to the risk indicators and classifies them as a risk indicator; A risk index extraction module for extracting a risk index from information classified as a risk index in the risk analysis module; And a risk level setting module for setting the risk level monitoring step, the risk information warning step, or the risk control step according to the risk index extracted by the risk index extraction module, wherein the risk index Is a risk indicator related to the maintenance of the spacing of the trains of the train, the speed and signal compliance of the train, the schedule of the train, and the consistency of the driving route.

The risk information monitoring unit may include a risk notification module that transmits a message notifying a risk to the engineer or train operation related organization of the train when the risk information setting module is set to the risk information monitoring step. A danger warning module for sending a danger warning to a person in charge of a train operation system or an upper authority of a train operation related organization when the risk level setting module is set to a danger information warning step; And a risk control module for generating a command for controlling the train operation system and transmitting the generated command to the train operation system when the risk level setting module is set to the risk control step, or for controlling the control command to the person authorized to have the control authority of the train operation system; And a control unit.

The risk information monitoring unit may include a wired communication module and a wireless communication module, and may be configured to transmit the message, the danger warning, or the control command to the outside.

According to this aspect, the train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention selectively receives information related to an accident of a train from the sensors, and organically combines the received information to predict an accident occurrence of a train, It is possible to monitor the train operation.

1 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a conventional train operation monitoring system.
2 is a view showing an embodiment of a control screen of a conventional train operation monitoring system.
3 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic structure of a train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a specific structure of a risk information collecting unit in a train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Hereinafter, a train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 3, the structure of a train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. The train operation monitoring system includes a risk information collecting unit 310, a risk information analyzing unit 320, And a monitoring unit 330.

In one example, the train operation monitoring system is for monitoring a railway vehicle running on a railway, that is, a train, and is formed in a space for monitoring a train, for example, an output unit such as a display unit in a control center And the control center can be formed in history or in a separate space formed remotely from history and trains.

At this time, the risk information collecting unit 310, the risk information analyzing unit 320, and the risk information monitoring unit 330 forming the train operation monitoring system may have a structure formed in one processing device.

At this time, the risk information collecting unit 310 is connected to various servers through wired communication or wireless communication, and receives related information from various servers.

In one example, the risk information collecting unit 310 may be a running monitoring server, a power monitoring server, a communication monitoring server, and a line monitoring server, which are servers constructed in advance to monitor the train operation.

That is, the risk information collecting unit 310 receives information from a plurality of servers. In a preferred example, the risk information collecting unit 310 receives only some information, rather than all the information stored in the plurality of servers.

Particularly, some information received from the plurality of servers by the risk information collection unit 310 is danger information used for predicting a train accident, and includes operation monitoring information 300 stored in the operation monitoring server, Monitoring information 301, communication monitoring information 302 stored in the communication monitoring server, and line monitoring information 303 stored in the line monitoring server.

The risk information collecting unit 310 collects the risk information from the plurality of servers. The risk information collecting unit 310 includes an information collecting module 311, an information selecting module 312, and an information recording module 313.

The information collecting module 311 includes an interface for collecting the risk information 300, 301, 302, and 303 from the plurality of servers by the risk information collecting unit 310, The collected information is received, and information input directly from external servers can be collected.

For example, the information collection module 311 can receive information from the information property file 314. The information property file 314 is an attribute file containing information registered by the user, Communication information, and information related to line facilities.

In a preferred example, the information property file 314 may be formed to be input from an authorized user, and may be input from an authorized user using an authorized certificate or a security program.

Since the information collection module 311 for collecting risk information from a plurality of servers has a structure for receiving information inputted from the outside through the information property file 314, Information about confidential or emergency situations that can not be obtained from the information can be used for the analysis of the accident situation of a train.

The information selection module 312 selects danger information which is information to be used for determining the train dangerous state from the information 300, 301, 302, and 303 received from the plurality of servers by the information collection module 311 .

For example, the information selection module 312 searches the information received from the information collection module 311 for information designated by the selection attribute file 315, and selects and extracts the danger information.

At this time, since the information selection module 312 has a structure for extracting the information designated in the selection attribute file 315, the information collection module 311 selects and collects only the danger information from the information received from the servers Therefore, it is possible to perform efficient train operation monitoring using only a minimum amount of danger information in the system.

At this time, the selection attribute file 315 may have the attribute file type registered by the user similarly to the information attribute file 314 described above, and designate the danger information to be selected from the information collected by the information collection module 311 .

In one example, the screening property file 315 may be modified to add or delete the screening target information specified in accordance with the input of the authorized user, i.e., the hazard information to be selected from the information collected by the information gathering module 311 have.

The information selection module 312 selects the risk information using the selection attribute file 315 and stores it in the risk recording module 313. [ At this time, the risk information stored in the risk recording module 313 is selected by the information selection module 312 and transmitted to the risk information analysis unit 320.

The risk information analysis unit 320 analyzes the selected risk information (hereinafter, referred to as 'risk information') from the information selection module 312 of the risk information collection unit 310 and extracts a risk index to set a risk level .

More specifically, the risk information analysis unit 320 includes a risk analysis module 321, a risk index extraction module 322, and a risk level setting module 323. The risk analysis module 321 includes a risk information collection unit 310 to classify the risk information received from the information selection module 312.

For example, the risk analysis module 321 determines whether the risk information received from the information selection module 312 is information related to a risk index to be used in determining a dangerous state of a train. In one example, the information selection module 312 The risk information received from the information selection module 312 is transmitted to the risk index extraction module 322 and the risk information received from the information selection module 312 is related to the risk index If the information is missing, the risk information is not transmitted to the risk index extraction module 322.

Accordingly, the risk index extraction module 322 receives the risk information classified by the risk analysis module 321 as information related to the risk index from the risk index extraction module 322, Extract the indicator.

In one example, the risk index extraction module 322 extracts, as a risk indicator, the maintenance of the spacing of trains, the speed and signal compliance of the trains, the schedule of the trains, and the consistency of the driving routes in the risk information.

The risk level setting module 323 sets a risk level based on the risk index extracted from the risk index extraction module 322 and transmits the result to the risk information monitoring unit 330. At this time, the risk level setting module 323 can set the risk level according to the extracted risk index, either in the risk information monitoring step, the risk information warning step, or the risk control step.

For example, the higher the risk index, the higher the probability of accidents due to the risk factors, and the lower the risk index, the lower the probability of accidents due to the risk factors. Can be set to the risk information monitoring step, the risk information warning step, and the risk control step, respectively.

The risk information monitoring unit 330 includes a risk notification module 331, a risk warning module 332 and a risk control module 333. The risk information monitoring unit 330 receives the risk level set by the risk level setting module 323, And monitors the dangerous state of the vehicle.

In this case, when the risk level set by the risk level setting module 323 is the risk level monitoring level, the risk notification module 331 sets the risk level set in the control property file 334 stored in the risk level monitoring unit 330 According to the notification procedure, a message is sent to the train engineer or the railway train-related agency to notify the danger status.

In one example, the risk notification module 331 may be configured such that the risk notification is formed or connected to the wired communication module and the wireless communication module to transmit the message to the train engine operator or train operation related organization .

When the set risk level is received from the risk level setting module 323 in the risk information warning step, the risk warning module 332 sets the risk level in accordance with the risk warning procedure set in the control attribute file 334, Or a danger warning to the upper organizations of train operation related organizations.

Like the risk notification module 331, the risk warning module 322 may include or be connected to a wired communication module and a wireless communication module.

If the risk level set in the risk information analysis unit 320 is the risk control level, the risk control module 333 generates a command for controlling the train operation system in accordance with the risk control procedure set in the control attribute file 334 To the train operation system, or to transmit the control command to the person in charge of the control of the train operation system.

3, the information necessary for the train operation monitoring system according to the embodiment of the present invention is selected and acquired, and the state of the train It is possible to monitor the integrated train operation.

Here, an example of extracting the risk index from the risk index extracting module 322 of the risk information analyzing unit 320 using the information collected by the risk information collecting unit 310, which receives the related information from various servers, 4, the risk index extraction module 322 extracts the collection information 400 received from a plurality of servers according to the type of the information, the facility failure information 410, The equipment status information 420, the equipment operation information 430, or the equipment control information 440.

At this time, the risk index extraction module 322 extracts the equipment failure state 412 and the information reception state 413, which are risk indices for the equipment suitability 411 among the equipment failure information 410 of the collected information 400, The train speed deviation 422, the train positional deviation 423, and the equipment status deviation 424, which are risk indices for the information suitability 421 among the equipment status information 420 of the collected information 400 are extracted.

The risk index extraction module 322 extracts the risk index from the facility operation information 430 of the collected information 400 based on the train operation regulations 432, the career handling regulations 433, And extracts the operation control state 442 and the facility control state 443, which are risk indicators for the control suitability 441 among the facility control information 440 of the collection information 400.

In more detail, the risk index extracting module 322 extracts a risk index for failure of the main facility for train operation from the facility failure information 410, The equipment failure index is extracted from the equipment failure state 412 according to whether the failure has occurred and the information reception index is extracted from the information reception state 413 according to its reliability.

As described above, the risk index extracting module 322 collects information from a plurality of different servers. However, the risk related information collected from each of the servers is extracted and collected at once and a risk index is generated from the collected information. So that the state of the train can be efficiently monitored.

The risk index extracting module 322 extracts the risk index from the information received from the main facility for train operation from the equipment state information 420. The risk index extracting module 322 extracts the risk index from the information on the train speed difference 422 Extracts a position deviation index from the train position deviation 423 calculated based on the position change rate of the train, and calculates a state deviation from the equipment state deviation 424 calculated based on the abrupt change in the state of the equipment And extracts the deviation index.

The risk index extraction module 322 extracts the risk index from the information that determines whether the operation state of the main facility for train operation is properly handled based on the rule from the facility operation information 430, (432), and extracts the career index from the track handling regulations (433) for trajectories, signals, and courses of trains. The facility specification index is extracted from the facility handling regulation 434 for the facility, respectively.

The risk index extracting module 322 extracts a risk index from information for determining whether a control command of the system for monitoring and ensuring safe operation of the train is appropriately performed from the facility control information 440, The driving control index is extracted from the driving control state 442 for judging whether or not the train is suitable, such as setting of driving and automatic career setting according to the schedule of the train.

At this time, in extracting the danger index from the facility control information 440, the facility control index is extracted from the facility control state 443 for judging whether the operation of the facility such as power, communication,

As described with reference to FIG. 4, since the risk index is extracted from the information collected by the risk index extraction module 322, the risk index that can determine the risk status of the train can be efficiently extracted can do.

As described above, the train operation monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention not only monitors each of a plurality of distributed servers, but also calculates a quantified risk index using information collected from each server, Therefore, it is possible to monitor the train efficiently and to perform the safe operation of the train, thereby minimizing the manpower required for monitoring the train operation, thereby reducing the cost.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.

100: Operation monitoring server 110: Power monitoring server
120: communication monitoring server 130: line monitoring server
140: vehicle monitoring apparatus 210: train running monitoring screen
220: Power monitoring screen 230: CCTV monitoring screen
240: Machine and communication equipment screen 250: Control console screen
310: Risk information collecting unit 320: Risk information analyzing unit
330: Risk information monitoring unit 400: Collecting government

Claims (9)

A risk information collecting unit for collecting the risk information from the operation monitoring server, the power monitoring server, the communication monitoring server, and the line monitoring server, which are servers constructed for monitoring the train operation;
The risk information collected by the risk information collecting unit is received and the risk index is extracted. When the extracted risk index is high, the probability of an accident occurring according to the risk factor is high. When the extracted risk index is low, The risk information analysis section sets the risk level to the risk information monitoring stage, the risk information warning stage, and the risk control stage in order of decreasing risk index so that the risk level is low. And
The risk information analyzing unit receives the risk level, monitors and controls the dangerous state of the train operation, and when the risk level is in the risk information monitoring stage, it notifies the engineer of the train or the train operation related organization of the risk And transmits a risk warning to a person in charge of the train operation system or an upper authority of the train operation related institution when the danger phase is the danger information warning phase and controls the train operation system when the risk phase is the risk control phase A danger information monitoring unit for generating a command and transmitting the command to a train operation system or transmitting a control command to a person authorized to control the train operation system;
And monitoring the operation of the train by integrally controlling and processing the train operation related information collected from the plurality of servers. The method according to claim 1,
The risk information collecting unit,
Monitoring information, power monitoring information, communication monitoring information, and line monitoring information are received from a plurality of servers, respectively. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the risk information collection unit extracts and collects information necessary for monitoring the train operation from the information collected from the plurality of servers. The method of claim 3,
The risk information collecting unit may further include an information selection module to extract a part of information necessary for monitoring the train operation,
Wherein the information selection module extracts information designated in the selection attribute file stored in the risk information collection unit. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the information selection module is input from the outside and stored in the risk information collection unit, and the designation of information to be extracted is changed to be added or deleted. The method according to claim 1,
The risk information collecting unit,
Further comprising an information property file for receiving and storing information related to the train operation monitoring from outside,
Wherein the information attribute file is input and stored from an authorized user. The method according to claim 1,
The risk information analysis department,
A risk analysis module that receives information from the risk information collection unit and analyzes the relation with the risk index and classifies the risk index;
A risk index extraction module for extracting a risk index from information classified as a risk index in the risk analysis module; And
A risk level setting module for setting a risk information monitoring step, a risk information warning step, or a risk control step according to the risk index extracted by the risk index extraction module;
Wherein the risk index extracted from the risk index extraction module is a risk index related to maintenance of the interval of a train, speed and signal conformity of a train, and schedule of a train and consistency of a driving route. . delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the risk information monitoring unit includes a wired communication module and a wireless communication module and is formed to be connected to the wired communication module and the wireless communication module, and transmits the message, the danger warning, or the control command to the outside.

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