Control of Personal Rapid Transit System and Configuration of an Apparatus to Evaluate its Control Scheme

Author

Lee, Jun-Ho ; Shin, Kyung-Ho

Author_Institution

Korea Railroad Res. Inst., Uiwang

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

654

Lastpage

658

Abstract

This paper presents a control system design for personal rapid transit (PRT) system and a configuration of apparatus to assess its control scheme. The control system can be divided into two parts: one is for the vehicle management that is related with the supervision of the vehicle operation and the other is for the vehicle operational control that is placed in the lower position of the control hierarchy. In this paper we focus on the vehicle operational control scheme that is one of the important features of PRT to guarantee PRT system performance. The operational control scheme that can be implemented by using the commercial process boards is proposed and a simple vehicle control algorithm for test is uploaded to it. The calculation results of the process boards are compared with the simulation results that are produced from a combined platform of Matlab/Simulink and Labview Simulation Interface Toolkit.

Keywords

mathematics computing; rapid transit systems; vehicle dynamics; Matlab-Simulink; PRT control; labview simulation interface toolkit; personal rapid transit system; vehicle management; vehicle operational control scheme; Automatic control; Centralized control; Circuits; Communication system control; Control systems; System performance; Testing; Vehicle detection; Vehicle safety; Wireless communication; Apparatus configuration; PRT (Personal Rapid Transit); Vehicle management; Vehicle operational control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2007. VPPC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Arlington, TX

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9760-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9761-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2007.4544204

Filename

4544204