Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2020, 22(3):119-127 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2020.3.119-127

Fiber Optic Phase-Based Sensor for Detection of Axles and Wheels of Tram Vehicles

Jan Nedoma1, Michal Kostelansky1, Michael Fridrich1, Jaroslav Frnda2, Miroslav Pinka3, Radek Martinek4, Martin Novak1, Stanislav Zabka1
1 Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
2 Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Informatics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Slovakia
3 Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
4 Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

This paper presents a novelty approach to usage of the fiber-optic phase-based sensor in railway transportation. We designed and tested the real deployment of this sensor working on the principle of light interferences within optical fibers. The proposed construction of the sensor allowed to increase the sensitivity and thanks to this can be detected and calculated individual axles and wheels of tram vehicles. We performed long-time period measurements (April to September 2019) in diverse climatic conditions, including measurements of 642 tram passages (several different construction types) in real urban traffic. The detection accuracy level was slightly above 99.4 %.

Keywords: vehicle transport; fiber-optic; sensor; interferometric sensor; Mach-Zehnder

Received: November 22, 2019; Accepted: January 28, 2020; Published: July 8, 2020  Show citation

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Nedoma, J., Kostelansky, M., Fridrich, M., Frnda, J., Pinka, M., Martinek, R., Novak, M., & Zabka, S. (2020). Fiber Optic Phase-Based Sensor for Detection of Axles and Wheels of Tram Vehicles. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 22(3), 119-127. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2020.3.119-127
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