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CA-2980704-C - EQUIPMENT FOR MONITORING AT LEAST ONE EQUIPMENT IN THE WAY OF A RAILWAY NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED RAILWAY SYSTEM

CA2980704CCA 2980704 CCA2980704 CCA 2980704CCA-2980704-C

Abstract

Equipment for monitoring (18) at least one equipment in the way of a railway network (22, 24, 26, 28, 30) includes a processor, a memory unit connected to the processor, and at least one communication port configured to be directly connected to the equipment in the way (22, 24, 26, 28, 30). The memory unit includes a designated zone for storing logic units that represent at least one equipment in the way (22, 24, 26, 28, 30), the logic unit that can be executed by the processor and including a plurality of logic rules defining the operation in question of at least one equipment in the way (22, 24, 26, 28, 30).

Inventors

  • Guillaume GINIS
  • Julien MULPAS

Assignees

  • ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES

Dates

Publication Date
20260505
Application Date
20170926
Priority Date
20160928

Claims (9)

  1. 19 CLAIMS 1. A control equipment for a trackside equipment of a railway network, comprising: 5 - a processor, - a memory unit associated with the processor, and - a communication port configured to be directly connected to the trackside equipment, in which the memory unit includes an area dedicated to the storage of a logical object 1 0 representing said trackside equipment, the logical object being executable by the processor and comprising: a plurality of logical rules defining the operation of said trackside equipment and two logical blocks representing two distinct parts of said trackside equipment and/or two distinct trackside equipment.
  2. 2. The control equipment according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to execute the logic object from an input data provided by an associated device of the control equipment belonging to the group comprising: 20 - an interlocking system, - track equipment, - other control equipment.
  3. 3. The control equipment according to claim 1 to claim 2, 25 wherein the control equipment comprises a module for defining and/or configuring the logic object.
  4. 4. The control equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein at hands one of the logic rules comprises at hands two logic operators 30.
  5. 5. The control equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the processor is configured to execute successively at hands two logical rules from the plurality of logical rules associated with the representative logical object 35 of the equipment at the channel. Date received: 2024-01-29
  6. 6. The control equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 5, comprising a timer associated with the processor configured to execute a second logic rule after a first logic rule once a timeout period, separating the execution of the first and second logic rules, has elapsed.
  7. 7. The control equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the processor is configured to simultaneously execute two logical rules from the plurality of logical rules associated with the representative logical object of the channel equipment.
  8. 8. A railway supervision system comprising, at first, an interlocking system, at first, trackside equipment for a railway network, and at second, control equipment for the trackside equipment for a railway network, the control equipment comprising a housing containing a processor and a memory unit, the interlocking system being outside the housing of the control equipment, wherein said control equipment conforms to any one of claims 1 to 7.
  9. 9. The railway supervision system according to claim 8, wherein the trackside equipment belongs to the group comprising, among other things: a signal light, a switch actuator, a level crossing, a track circuit, and audible signals. Date received: 2024-01-29

Description

1 Control equipment for at least one trackside equipment of a railway network and associated railway system The present invention relates to a control equipment for at least one trackside equipment of a railway network, comprising a processor, a memory unit associated with the processor, and a communication port configured to be directly connected to the trackside equipment. The present invention also relates to a railway supervision system comprising at the hands an interlocking system, at the hands equipment on track 1 0 of a railway network and at least one control equipment at the hands equipment on the track of a railway network. The present invention relates more particularly to an automatic train supervision architecture, also known as an ATS system, according to the English acronym "Automatic Train Supervision". The ATS system is implemented in a central operational control room and includes human-machine interfaces, allowing operators to intervene on the various systems of the signaling system and, in particular, trackside equipment. For example, the operator can remotely control, from the ATS, the closing of a signal (changing a traffic light to red), or the closing of a level crossing barrier. The signaling system also includes an interlocking system. Such an interlocking system, often centralized and remote, is designed to manage trackside equipment, such as signal lights, switch actuators, etc., this trackside equipment allowing the safe movement of trains and preventing conflicting movements between trains. Formerly based on electromechanical relays, the interlocking system is now computer-controlled by dedicated computers to control trackside equipment via trackside controllers located on the track. Such trackside equipment control systems convert the 30 input data received from the interlocking system into actions to be performed by the corresponding trackside equipment and report the status of the trackside equipment back to the interlocking system. In other words, these trackside equipment control devices are basic information relays between the interlocking system, often centralized and remote, and the trackside equipment. Current control devices, hereafter referred to as basic control devices, are not configurable and lack any logic components other than those necessary to convert the data transmitted by the interlocking system into commands to be executed by the trackside equipment. For example, currently, the interlocking system decides when to turn on one of the lamps in a signal, transmits the turn-on command to the control device located near the signal where one of the lamps is to be turned on, and then the control device switches on the lamp indicated by the interlocking system. Such an architecture for monitoring track equipment presents high reaction times, which limits the responsiveness of switching track equipment. Furthermore, when communication between the interlocking system and the control equipment is degraded, for example due to saturation of the interlocking system's processing capacities 15 or interrupted, the operation of the trackside equipment becomes impossible, no longer allowing the safe movement of trains. The aim of the invention is therefore to offer trackside equipment control equipment with improved autonomy, while retaining the current automatic train supervision architecture. To this end, the invention relates to a control equipment of the aforementioned type, in which the memory unit includes an area dedicated to the storage of a logical object representing said at least one channel equipment, the logical object being executable by the processor and comprising a plurality of logical rules defining the operation of said at least one channel equipment and at least two logical blocks representing two distinct parts of said at least one channel equipment and/or two distinct channel equipment. According to other advantageous aspects of the invention, the control equipment comprises one or more of the following characteristics, taken individually or according to all technically possible configurations: - the processor is configured to execute the logic object from input data provided by a device associated with the control equipment belonging to the group comprising: + an interlocking system, + trackside equipment, + another control equipment; - the control equipment comprises a module for defining and/or configuring the logic object; - at least one of the logic rules comprises at least two logic operators; - the processor is configured to execute successively at least two logic rules from the plurality of logic rules associated with the logic object representing the trackside equipment; - the control equipment includes a timer associated with the processor configured to execute a second logic rule after a first logic rule once a timeout period, separating the execution of the first and second logic rules, has elapsed; and - the processor is configured to exec