Driving-Over Detection in the Railway Environment

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Autores principales: Herrmann, Tobias, Chenkov, Nikolay, Stark, Florian, Härter, Matthias, Köppel, Martin
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Publicado: 2026
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author Herrmann, Tobias
Chenkov, Nikolay
Stark, Florian
Härter, Matthias
Köppel, Martin
author_facet Herrmann, Tobias
Chenkov, Nikolay
Stark, Florian
Härter, Matthias
Köppel, Martin
contents To enable fully automated driving of trains, numerous new technological components must be introduced into the railway system. Tasks that are nowadays carried out by the operating stuff, need to be taken over by automatic systems. Therefore, equipment for automatic train operation and observing the environment is needed. Here, an important task is the detection of collisions, including both (1) collisions with the front of the train as well as (2) collisions with the wheel, corresponding to an driving-over event. Technologies for detecting the driving-over events are barely investigated nowadays. Therefore, detailed driving-over experiments were performed to gather knowledge for fully automated rail operations, using a variety of objects made from steel, wood, stone and bones. Based on the captured test data, three methods were developed to detect driving-over events automatically. The first method is based on convolutional neural networks and the other two methods are classical threshold-based approaches. The neural network based approach provides an mean accuracy of 99.6% while the classical approaches show 85% and 88.6%, respectively.
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spellingShingle Driving-Over Detection in the Railway Environment
Herrmann, Tobias
Chenkov, Nikolay
Stark, Florian
Härter, Matthias
Köppel, Martin
Signal Processing
Robotics
To enable fully automated driving of trains, numerous new technological components must be introduced into the railway system. Tasks that are nowadays carried out by the operating stuff, need to be taken over by automatic systems. Therefore, equipment for automatic train operation and observing the environment is needed. Here, an important task is the detection of collisions, including both (1) collisions with the front of the train as well as (2) collisions with the wheel, corresponding to an driving-over event. Technologies for detecting the driving-over events are barely investigated nowadays. Therefore, detailed driving-over experiments were performed to gather knowledge for fully automated rail operations, using a variety of objects made from steel, wood, stone and bones. Based on the captured test data, three methods were developed to detect driving-over events automatically. The first method is based on convolutional neural networks and the other two methods are classical threshold-based approaches. The neural network based approach provides an mean accuracy of 99.6% while the classical approaches show 85% and 88.6%, respectively.
title Driving-Over Detection in the Railway Environment
topic Signal Processing
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17745