Development of Safety Equipment using Laser Radar Sensor for Railway Platform

  • Hwang, Jong-Gyu (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, You-Ho (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University) ;
  • Jo, Hyun-Jeong (Train Control & Telecommunication Research Division, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Choi, Kwon-Hee (Korea Railway Technology Corporation) ;
  • Ko, Tae-Kuk (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2010.07.02
  • Accepted : 2010.12.08
  • Published : 2010.12.31

Abstract

Many casualties are being occurred due to many misses the railway platform, and the accident occurrence is being increased. Recently in Korea, efforts to prevent casualties fundamentally are being made by installing and operating the PSD(Passenger Screen Door) as to prevent these casualties of passengers. However, in case of the PSD system, although it can solve the problem of public casualties at platform fundamentally, it is impossible to install it at whole railway platforms. This paper proposes the safety equipment using LaserRadar sensor for the prevention against casualties of passengers at platform. The safety equipment using novel sensor is the safety equipment making an approaching train stopped if the falling object is a person by detecting the obstacle at platform, and it has the merit possible to apply it to platform since it may detect accurately under ambient environmental elements such as the snow, rain and yellow dust, etc. also. We manufactured a prototype of the safety equipment to reduce public casualties at platform by using LaserRadar sensor and carried out its performance test, and the result is presented in this paper.

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