RU148672U1 - RAILWAY MACHINE SIMULATOR - Google Patents

Abstract

The train driver’s simulator is made in the form of a locomotive’s cabin, equipped with a camera to monitor the tested drivers, a module for simulating sound signals, a device that reads the psychophysiological readings from the driver, while the cabin contains: the driver’s workstation, which consists of a dynamic platform on which is installed driver’s chair and dashboard, from interconnected monitors of the left side and monitors of the right side to form an external image, monitor visualization of the profile travel situation, display monitors of the cockpit devices, control system, which includes a computer configured to control the simulator and which stores many options for the surrounding reality, as a result of which it is possible to adjust weather conditions, simulating snow or rain, or change time of day, and a unit for analyzing learning outcomes; system image control units, a system unit for monitoring the state of the controls, a monitor for monitoring railway equipment along the route, while the simulator is configured to connect to an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server, a driver’s actions monitor, a script task monitor and non-standard situations using a computer network.

Description

The utility model relates to the field of training equipment, in particular, to devices for training railway personnel and can be used to improve the efficiency and quality of training of specialists and railway workers. It is known that training and developing the skills of interaction between the main participants of the transportation process during shunting at the railway station and following the train around the site, as well as practicing actions in unusual situations, are a difficult section in the program for training and advanced training of specialists and railway workers. The safety of the movement, as well as the life and health of people involved in the transportation process, directly depends on how skilled the participants in the transportation process are and how coordinated their interaction is during shunting at the railway station.

The training complex is designed for operation in rooms with artificially controlled climatic conditions, for example, in closed heated or cooled and ventilated production facilities and others, including well-ventilated underground rooms; in the absence of direct sunlight, precipitation, wind, sand and dust of outdoor air; in the absence or significant reduction of the effect of scattered solar radiation and moisture condensation; at an ambient temperature of + 10 ° C to + 35 ° C, at an average annual relative humidity of not more than 60% at a temperature of 20 ° C.

A train simulator is known from the prior art, utility utility model CN 2916801 Y, publ. 06/27/2007 on 7 pages, containing a monitor for forming an external image, a monitor for displaying cabin instruments, a control unit, an image control system unit, an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server, a driver’s actions control monitor, a script task monitor and non-standard situations, monitor of control of railway equipment on the route, computer network.

Also known patent for invention US 7143017 B2, publ. 11.28.2006 on 8 pages, which describes a system for training personnel in railway transport, which contains a monitor for forming an external image, a monitor for displaying cabin instruments, a control unit, an image control system unit, an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server , a monitor for monitoring the actions of a driver, a monitor for specifying a scenario and non-standard situations, a monitor for monitoring railway equipment along a route, a computer network.

Known patent for utility model CN 02563797 U, publ. 11.28.2012 on 5 pages, which describes a system for training personnel in railway transport, which contains a monitor for generating an external image, a monitor for displaying cabin instruments, a control unit, an image control system unit, an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server , a monitor for monitoring the actions of a driver, a monitor for specifying a scenario and non-standard situations, a monitor for monitoring railway equipment along a route, a computer network.

Known patent for the invention CN 101201983 B, publ. 04/21/2010 on 7 pages, which describes a system for training personnel in railway transport, which contains a monitor for generating an external image, a monitor for displaying cabin instruments, a control unit, an image control system unit, an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server , a monitor for monitoring the actions of a driver, a monitor for specifying a scenario and non-standard situations, a monitor for monitoring railway equipment along a route, a computer network.

The closest analogue of the proposed utility model is the training systems on the simulator of the operator of the traction rolling stock described in the patent for utility model RU 102135 U1, publ. 02.10.2011 on 13 sheets, containing a monitor for forming an external image, a monitor for displaying cabin instruments, a control unit, an image control system unit, an instructor workstation module equipped with software and consisting of a server, a driver’s actions control monitor, a script task monitor and non-standard situations, monitor of control of railway equipment on the route, computer network.

The disadvantages of the above-mentioned known simulators and training systems is the low quality of training for drivers, due to the lack of the ability to control the status of the virtual image of the railway on the right and left sides.

The objective of the utility model is to train the train technician of railway equipment, to develop skills of interaction with the main organs of the cabin, and also to practice actions in non-standard situations to study the psychophysiological parameters of drivers during flights.

The technical result is an increase in the efficiency and quality of driver training, due to the possibility of viewing the railway from all sides.

The trainer's trainer simulator is made in the form of a locomotive cabin, equipped with a camera for the ability to monitor the tested drivers, a module for simulating sound signals, a device that reads the psychophysiological readings of the driver, while the cabin contains: the driver’s workstation, which consists of a dynamic platform on which is installed driver’s chair and dashboard; from interconnected monitors on the left side; right side monitors to form an external image; profile visualization monitor; monitors display cabin instruments; control system, which includes a computer configured to control the simulator and the memory of which contains many options for the surrounding reality, as a result of which you can adjust the weather conditions by simulating snow or rain, or change the time of day and the unit for analyzing training results; system image control units; system unit for monitoring the status of controls; monitor the monitoring of railway equipment on the route, while the simulator is configured to connect to the module of the instructor’s workstation, equipped with software and consisting of a server, monitor for monitoring the actions of the driver, monitor for scenario assignment and non-standard situations, using a computer network.

According to its design, the claimed train simulator of a railway technician exactly copies the control panel of a real electric locomotive.

The simulator is equipped with screens simulating views from the locomotive's cab (forward, backward, left and right), which makes it possible to analyze the driver's travel situation from all sides, and not just, as in many well-known simulators, profile.

The video sequence is a traced station in 3D graphics with railway objects, namely, they draw all the main and side tracks of the station, the surrounding landscape to the level of recognition of all the main objects located within sight of the locomotive’s cab, the location of all outdoor devices at the station and section (traffic lights, arrows , congresses, signs, shields, crossings, supports of the contact network, pickets, etc.). The change in the position of objects in the scene is synchronously transmitted to all workplaces using 3D graphics, the sounds and noises characteristic of a real trip in the simulator cabin are simulated by a module for simulating sound signals, reproduced using sound speakers.

In the server of the instructor’s workstation module, the software “Virtual World Server”, “Instructor”, and decryption data for saving test trips are used as software.

The psychophysiological state of the driver is recorded by the device during the creation of various emergency situations, i.e. a person’s reaction to obstacles that arise in front of him: from brake failure to the danger of collision with an oncoming train, for the driver to be able to familiarize himself with and analyze his mistakes in the future so as not to make them in the future.

The claimed simulator provides for the operation of all basic controls (the driver’s controller, toggle switches, switches, including buffer lights, spotlights, driver’s cranes and auxiliary brakes, etc.), as well as the display of readings corresponding to the actual readings of all the main control and measuring devices control panel (manometers, ammeters, voltmeters). The driver’s workplace software allows you to: monitor the environment at the station, control the movement of the shunting locomotive in the station and section, negotiate radio communications with other participants, couple and unhitch cars in accordance with the shunting technology, and the software allows the driver to perform computer trip in real time and conditions close to real ones.

The video surveillance system allows you to record video from cameras for subsequent analysis of the actions of drivers. To coordinate the actions of participants, a server is installed.

After each virtual trip of the driver, the instructor has the opportunity to print a report with all the errors of the driver and if there are too many of them, you will have to repeat the race.

Mobile training and demonstration complex operates as follows.

The simulator simulates, for example, a trip of an electric locomotive with a passenger train or freight in real time along the route chosen before the trip. Moreover, images are displayed on the screens in front of the trained driver of the electric locomotive, showing the train situation on the right, left and front. The trip can be carried out along a section of the track and conditional stations in 3D graphics. The driver’s workplace, located in the cockpit of the electric locomotive simulator along with the driver’s console and other controls, contains a screen onto which the train situation is projected and sound speakers, which allows you to recreate the visual and acoustic environment of the driver’s cab with a high degree of approximation, and the driver’s chair is equipped dynamic platform. A monitor is provided for graphically depicting the operation of the pneumatic and electrical circuits of the locomotive, the characteristics of the longitudinal dynamics of the train, the distribution of pressure in the brake line and brake cylinders, as well as the forces on automatic couplings along the length of the train.

Before the start of the study trip, the instructor at his workplace sets the program for the learning process using a computer system. He selects a task that may contain non-standard situations during the trip and can monitor the actions of the trained driver and the state of the training system using monitors at his workplace. The set parameters: section of the movement of the composition; number of sections of a locomotive; charging pressure in the brake line; number of cars in the train; train brake density; distribution of air leaks along the length of the composition; on each car the following parameters are set: weight of the car; air distribution modes for braking and vacation; tin brake pads; time of day when moving: day; night; weather conditions: clear; fog; snow; rain; critical level of strength in the composition for the cliff; follow up; arrangement of signal signs; obstacles on the way; malfunctions of electric circuits of a locomotive.

Abnormal situations can be represented as:

- obstacles on the way (vehicle on the move, rolling stock off the rail);

- malfunctions in the operation of a continuous automatic locomotive signaling system (ALSN) (blocking the allowing indication of a traffic light to prohibit, loss of codes, tracing of an extinguished traffic light, total about 20), in turn, ALSN can be implemented in various versions: typical ALSN, ALSN with preliminary light signaling, ALSN with a device for monitoring the vigilance of the UKBM driver, etc., while the same drivers can travel on locomotives of the same type equipped with various security systems;

- violation of the normal operation of the auto-brakes of the rolling stock (malfunctions of the auto-braking equipment, failure to release the brakes, closing of the end crane, about 20 in total);

- emergency situations when sending / arriving at the station (departure / arrival at the prohibitory indication of the traffic light, departure at the yellow signal of the traffic light, other);

- following with a train at night;

- following with a train in conditions of poor visibility: fog; rain; snow.

The trained driver during the trip, while at his workplace in the simulator’s cabin, acts on the controls of the electric locomotive, information about the position of which can be transmitted to the instructor’s workstation or recorded in the control system memory. The operator observes the readings of measuring instruments and signaling devices on the remote control, the driving situation on the monitors, the sounds and noises characteristic of a real trip in the locomotive cab are simulated by a module for simulating sound signals and reproduced using sound speakers. The basis of the training complex and its integral component is unique software (PO), which allows you to calculate processes in trains of up to 100 cars in length and above, evaluate the magnitude of longitudinal-dynamic forces in a train, simulate the process of movement of rolling stock, etc.

The dynamic platform serves to simulate the movement of a locomotive when passing turnouts, curves and inclined sections of the track. A control panel and a driver’s chair equipped with a dynamic drive are installed on a dynamic platform. The driver’s chair through a dynamic drive simulates the longitudinal forces acting on the learner when the locomotive is moving.

Thus, during the trip, the driver controls the travel situation from all sides.

Claims (1)

The trainer's trainer simulator is made in the form of a locomotive cabin, equipped with a camera for the ability to monitor the tested drivers, a module for simulating sound signals, a device that reads the psychophysiological readings of the driver, while the cabin contains: the driver’s workstation, which consists of a dynamic platform on which is installed driver’s chair and dashboard, from interconnected monitors of the left side and monitors of the right side to form an external image, monitor visualization of the profile of the traveling situation, monitors of the display of the cockpit devices, a control system that includes a computer configured to control the simulator and which stores many options for the surrounding reality, as a result of which it is possible to regulate weather conditions, simulating snow or rain, or change time of day, and a unit for analyzing learning outcomes; system image control units, a system unit for monitoring the state of the controls, a monitor for monitoring railway equipment along the route, while the simulator is configured to connect to a module of the instructor’s workstation equipped with software and consisting of a server, a driver’s actions monitor, a script task monitor and non-standard situations using a computer network.