Automatic neutral section passing control device based on image recognition for electric locomotives

2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 385-388

  Chen, Dixiang ^a   Pan, Mengchun ^a   Tian, Wugang ^a   Yang, Wuqiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Electric locomotive; Image recognition; Neutral section passing device; Smart camera

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DEVICE; HIGH RELIABILITY; IMAGE EDGE; IMAGE SIZES; NEUTRAL SECTIONS; NEW DEVICES; PROCESSING SPEED; SMART CAMERAS;

CAMERAS; CONTROL; EDGE DETECTION; ENGINES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROADS; SPEED;

ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES;

EID: 77957853310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IST.2010.5548442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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