Abstract
Tracking operating trains and identifying illegal intruders are two important and critical issues in subway safety management. One challenge is to find a reliable methodology that would enable these two needs to be addressed with high sensitivity and spatial resolution over a long-distance range. This paper proposes a novel monitoring approach based on distributed vibration, which is suitable for both train tracking and incursion detection. For an actual subway system, ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing technology was applied to collect the distributed vibration responses from moving trains and intruders. The monitoring data from the subway operation stage were directly utilized to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed method for tracking trains. Moreover, a field simulation experiment was performed to validate the possibility of detecting human intrusion. The results showed that the diagonal signal pattern in the distributed vibration response can be used to reveal the location and speed of the moving loads (e.g., train and intruders). Other train parameters, such as length and the number of compartments, can also be obtained from the vibration responses through cross-correlation and envelope processing. Experimental results in the time and frequency domains within the selected intrusion range indicated that the proposed method can distinguish designed intrusion cases in terms of strength and mode.
Highlights
During the last few decades, the construction of urban subways has developed rapidly worldwide and in China
To eliminate the need for two separate systems, improve measurement efficiency and reduce overall cost, this paper explored the feasibility of addressing train tracking and human intrusion in subway systems using distributed vibration measurement based on the ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing array
This study reported an integrated monitoring technology used for ensuring the safety of subway operation, which verified that dynamic distributed measurement based on ultra-weak FBG was a feasible method, suitable for both train tracking and human intrusion detection in an actual engineering application
Summary
During the last few decades, the construction of urban subways has developed rapidly worldwide and in China. In addition to tracking trains in operation, positioning illegal intruders and preventing the risk caused by such intrusion events—which usually occur during the subway outage periods—is another issue worth noting For the former, Peng et al [19] reviewed the shortcomings of conventional train positioning techniques and pioneered investigation of the feasibility of train positioning and speed monitoring through Φ-OTDR technology, in which the spatial resolution of the common optic fiber reaches 20 m. Catalano et al [21,22] reported an incursion detection system for railway security using two types of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, which is apparently only applicable to a limited protection area due to the restricted multiplexing capacity of FBG He et al [23] presented research on railway perimeter safety based on DAS technology, which has a spatial resolution of only 10 m in the reported application scenarios. The effectiveness on tracking and detecting the objectives of interest is discussed based on the experimental results represented by the responses of distributed vibration of the ultra-weak FBG array
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