IoT Based on-the-fly Visual Defect Detection in Railway Tracks

Project Code :TEMBMA2972

Objective

The main aim of this project is to makes inspection faster and does not congest the cloud with unnecessary data.

Abstract

Railway transportation requires constant inspections and immediate maintenance to ensure public safety. Traditional manual inspections are not only time consuming, and expensive, but the accuracy of defect detection is also subjected to human expertise and efficiency at the time of inspection. Computing and Robotics offer automated IOT based solutions where robots could be deployed on rail-tracks and hard to reach areas, and controlled from control rooms to provide faster inspection. In this project, robot will go on railway track and ultrasonic sensor is used for detecting the defect in track. If any defect is detected it will send the location on cloud. The system provides ultrasonic sensor for defect detection, cloud storage of information that consist of location of the defected railway tracks, and robot localization within a range of 3-6 inches. The proposed system utilizes state of the art Machine Learning system and obtained from the tracks in order to classify them as normal or suspicious. Such locations are then marked and more careful inspection can be performed by a dedicated operator with very few locations to inspect (as opposed to the full track).

Keywords: Rail track inspection, Arduino Uno, ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor, robot,GPS

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Block Diagram

Specifications

Hardware Requirements:

ARDUINO UNO
GPS
Ultrasonic Sensor
Motor
Motor driver
Transformer
Power Supply
Connecting wires

Software Requirements:

ARDUINO IDE
Embedded C
Frizzing
Third party server

Learning Outcomes

Arduino UNO Pin diagram and Architecture
How to install arduino IDE Software
Setting up and Installation procedures for Arduino UNO
Introduction to Arduino IDE
Commands in Arduino
How to install Libraries?
Basic coding in arduino.
What is Ultrasonic Sensor?
How to interface Ultrasonic Sensor with arduino?
What is motor driver?
How to interface motor driver with arduino?
What is DC motor?
How to interface DC motor with arduino?
What is GPS?
How to interface GPS with Arduino?
What is transformer?
What is power supply?
About Project Development Life Cycle:

Planning and Requirement Gathering( software’s, Tools, Hardware components, etc.,)
Schematic preparation
Code development and debugging
Hardware development and debugging
Development of the Project and Output testing