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Automated Visual Inspection
These projects involve interdisciplinary collaboration between the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory in the Beckman Institute and the Railroad Program in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. The goal of these projects is to advance the state of the art in automated train inspection using computer vision techniques to show the feasibility of system of this type being implemented in the transportation field.
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This was the first interdisciplinary project, in collaboration with the Civil Engineering Railroad Program, for developing a machine vision system to perform railcar inspection. The …
Inspectors and carmen use safety appliances to mount and dismount railcars during yard operations. It is critical for their safety that these laters, handholds and …
The use of both visible and infrared imaging was used to investigate the undercarriage of passenger trains isolate incipient failures and detection of foreign objects. …
Heavy haul railcars must be visually inspected frequently to ensure the structural stability of the railcar underbody. The goal of this project was to determine …
This project involved the monitoring of the loading of intermodal trains to provide an aerodynamic analysis of the entire train to estimate its fuel efficiency. …
This project focused on automatically inspecting the condition of the track by identifying defective components, such as track fasteners and turnout components, using computer vision. …
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