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Network Rail needs for Robotic Inspection &
Maintenance:
RIMA Seminar 5th February 2019
Mark Gaddes, R&D, Network Rail
+44 (0) 7710 958081
Who are we?
We own, operate and develop Britain’s railway infrastructure; that’s 32,000Km of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. We manage 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are managed by the country’s train operating companies.
We employ >38,000 people and have an annual budget of ~€7Bn
What we do?
• Provide passenger and freight train operators with railway track access
• Manage train timetabling, train planning and signalling
• Maintain and renew the infrastructure and undertake major capital programmes
Creating the CP6 (Apr19-Mar24) R&D Plan
SBP
£440m + £375m• Industry wide
• RSSB coordinated
• Poor substantiation
Updated Plan
£245m + £112m
• Network Rail focused
• Network Rail coordinated
• Specific
• Substantiated
• Endorsed – Chiefs & DRAMs
• Awarded in Final Determination
CP5
£200m + £68m
Direct 3rd Party
Direct 3rd Party
Direct 3rd Party
Compared with
ORR Challenge
400+ Pipeline Projects -> 129 Priority Projects
Prioritisation based on benefits, strategic
alignment, likelihood of success and sponsors’
prioritisation
We evaluated the benefit cost ratio of the R&D plan at 2.83 to 1 over 20 years
The Network Rail CP6 R&D plan (April2019 – March 2024)
Programme Level View
• Five R&D Programmes and in-flight Shift2Rail programme
• Programme definition and scoping workshops underway
• Shift2Rail programme will be aligned to the 5 programme to prevent duplication, align outcomes and provide full visibility at the programme review meetings
Track, Maintenance and Plant
New technology for monitoring & analysis
Optimising maintenance planning
More resilient assets
Robotics and automation
Civils and Sustainability
New technology for monitoring & analysis
Optimising maintenance planning
More resilient assets
Robotics and automation
Sustainable railway
Reliable & Sustainable Power
New technology for monitoring & analysis
Optimising maintenance planning
More resilient assets
Energy strategy
Safety, Security and Operations
Safe & secure railway
Mitigating disruption
Safe & reliable Level Crossings
Improving workforce safety
Future Communications &
Train control
ETCS L3
Robotics and automation (ATO)
Communications
Optimising timetables and service recovery
Shift2Rail
IP01 - Trains
IP02 - Control Systems
IP03 - Infrastructure
IP04 - IT Solutions
IP05 - Freight
Track Inspection
Have things changed?Where is the knowledge retained?
Tunnel Inspection
Have things changed?Where is the knowledge retained
Existing activity
Prometheus: A reconfigurable robotic platform(s) with advanced sensing for confined spaces
Pervasive sensing for buried pipes
Autoscan: Rapidly deployable track defect inspection that is autonomous in its operation
www.esmera-project.eu/challenges/Vegetation Management
S2R-OC-IPX-01-2019: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) for the railway sector
Call Open – Deadline June 2019
Systems Engineering Approach
Existing activity
Existing activity
Track Maintenance – RIMV – Rail Inspection and Maintenance VehicleAbility to confirm presence of defects, repair and quality assure• enable robotic arm to remove defect and repair the railhead• conduct immediate quality inspection to confirm effectiveness of repair.
Assumptions• Possession operation only• No personnel onboard• Operator supervision from a lineside position initially (ultimately centrally supervised)
Challenges
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-commercial-partners/research-development-technology/research-development-programmes/challenge-statements/
Bridges - Establishing condition of hidden critical elements
Bridges - Scour prevention and management
Buildings - Provide a safe and efficient method to enable building facade inspections
without impacting on the operation of the environs
Structures - Health monitoring and prognosis
Drainage - Safe and efficient drainage inspections and monitoring
Earthworks - Detection of asset failure by means other than train drivers
Tunnels - Alternative methods for patch repairs in tunnels
Tunnels - Capability assessment tool for tunnel masonry linings
Electrical power - Intelligent assets and condition monitoring
Robotics - Automating inspection and maintenance activities
Lineside - Safe and effective lineside inspections
Track - Plain line rail head squats
Track - Visual Track Inspections
Track - Ultrasonic Rail Inspection
Track - Rail Running Surface Inspections
Third rail de-icingOLE inspection – Height and StaggerSuicide / Trespass spots
Challenges
5M sq. Metres of surface area
Challenges
- Measures track condition at 200km/h.- Surveys 32,000 Km of track every two weeks.- Carries out shifts of up to 1600km at a time- Covers 185,000km in a year.- 14 sensors on board – from linear variable differential transformers and lasers to gyroscopes and accelerometers.- Each Plain Line Pattern Recognition image file, recorded by seven cameras on the NMT, is 2048 pixels wide and 30 miles long.- Captures around 10TB of image data every 700km
Challenges
- 50-60 people on a track relaying site during renewals- 600 people working on Saturday nights at peak times- Typically, 0.4km track replaced in 7.5 hours- Track handed back at up to 125mph after renewals
Each night, High Output (HO) teams replace up to 1.6km of ballast, and renew rails and sleepers over 1.2km, on the plain-line (straight) track.
- 0.8km mile BCS – longest train on the network- 800 tonnes of new ballast carried on BCS every night
Challenges