RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Nedoma, Jan
A1 Kostelansky, Michal
A1 Fridrich, Michael
A1 Frnda, Jaroslav
A1 Pinka, Miroslav
A1 Martinek, Radek
A1 Novak, Martin
A1 Zabka, Stanislav
T1 Fiber Optic Phase-Based Sensor for Detection of Axles and Wheels of Tram Vehicles
JF Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina
YR 2020
VO 22
IS 3
SP 119
OP 127
DO 10.26552/com.C.2020.3.119-127
UL https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-202003-0013.php
AB 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 %.