AUTONOM - Integrated
through-life support for
high-value systems
Andrew Starr
Welcome
Contents
• Introduction to TES Institute and Cranfield rail
group
• Introduction to AUTONOM - Integrated throughlife support for high-value systems
• Challenges ahead
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Through-life
Engineering Services
Institute
Integrated Vehicle
Health
Management
Centre
EPSRC National
Centre for
Innovative
Manufacturing in
Through-life
Engineering
Services
TESI
core staff
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Cranfield Rail Group
• Technical
• Safety and behaviour
• Business
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Rail group
- Technical
• Heat dissipation from brake discs
• Diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance
planning for electro-mechanical systems
• Air quality monitoring using optical fibre sensors
• Complex Systems for optimizing rail networks
• Diagnosis, condition monitoring and prognosis for
machines; motors, gears, generators;
• Rail monitoring with optical fibre grating sensors
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Tramway deployment
of FBG sensors
Instrumented
fishplate
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Rail Group
Safety and behaviour
• Passenger Safety Research: perceptions of risk
and safety on the railway network
• Passenger safety in rail crashes
• Passenger information requirements in safety
related situations on the railway network
• Driving Research Group: working with the private
and public sector on driver behaviour.
• Human factors in rail and road safety.
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Rail Group
- Business
• Transaction costs within rail firms; franchised
train operating firms in Britain; benchmarking of
train operating firms; deregulation and
globalisation;
• Competition between air transport and highspeed rail in Japan
• Environmental impacts
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AUTONOM - Integrated
through-life support
for high-value
systems
• Part of the Autonomous and
Intelligent Systems Programme
• Integrating:
- Data fusion and mobile platforms
- Planning and scheduling
- Cost analysis
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Our team
Andrew Starr,
Professor of Maintenance
Systems, Head of
Integrated Maintenance
Centre
Dr Essam Shehab,
Senior Lecturer in
Decision Engineering
Antonios Tsourdos,
Professor of Informatics and
Systems Engineering, Head
of Autonomous Systems
Group,
Dr Yuchun Xu,
Lecturer in Cost
Engineering
Ashutosh Tiwari,
Professor of Manufacturing
Informatics, Head of
Product and Service
Innovation Centre
Dr Paul Baguley,
Research Fellow in
Cost Engineering
Dr Christopher Turner,
Research Fellow
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AUTONOM - Integrated
through-life support for
high-value systems
- structure
Integration
Data fusion
and mobile
platforms
Think-tank
Foundations
Definitions
Fusion
strategy
Design
Design
strategy
Monitoring
design
strategy
Applications
Partner
benefits
Fusion case
studies
Validation
Reporting
architecture
Planning
and
Scheduling
Cost
Analysis
Identify
business
processes
Best practice
cost
modelling
Optimisation
framework
Models
Frameworks
for integration
and benefits
Validation
Validation
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No Fault Found
• Switch machines
• Track circuits
• Doors
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Data rich problems
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Location:
Fixed beacon (balise)
Moving sensors
Ultrasonic
Laser
Terabytes per day
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Data poor problems
• Old structures
• Difficult, infrequent inspections
• Very old records
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Challenges
• Requirements for interchange of maintenance
data between fixed and mobile actors
• Automation of monitoring on mobile platforms,
and interface with other actors
• New cost modelling tools for complex distributed
health monitoring, and value to the business.
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Contacts
Thank you for your attention.
Andrew Starr a.starr@cranfield.ac.uk
+44 (0)1234 758374 +44 (0)7939 095572
Cranfield University, UK
www.cranfield.ac.uk
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