Railway Track Circuit Signal State Check Using Object Detection

Abstract

The track circuit is widely used in the railway network for safety, and the corresponding track circuit equipment is laid almost every railway station, which provides an extremely important information service for the safe driving of the train. In this paper, we proposed a two-phase detection algorithm for the state of the signal equipment of the track circuit, which is used for automatic safety detection of the status of the track circuit signal equipment in the railway signal room. Compared with the traditional inspection method of inspection workers, our proposed detection algorithm of signal state greatly improves the efficiency of security inspection, and in the experimental results, the proposed method outperforms other methods in different situations.