An embedded fail-safe interlocking system

Author

Pei, Bin ; Ming, Yinghua

Author_Institution

Signal Dept., China Railway Signal & Commun. Co., Beijing, China

fYear

1997

fDate

15-16 Dec 1997

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

27

Abstract

The paper presents a fail-safe railway interlocking system embedded in an Area Control Center (ACC) system. The host of the system is a TANDEM NONSTOP HIMALAYA K200 computer. The fault tolerant computer aims at high safety, reliability and availability. In addition, the dispatcher management system, device supervision system, and train control system are integrated in the host computer to ensure high performance. Tens of stations can be controlled by the system concurrently. The paper also presents some measures in the software used to ensure safety of the interlocking system. These measures have been verified by practical applications in old versions of the interlocking system

Keywords

fault tolerant computing; rail traffic; railways; real-time systems; reliability; safety; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; Area Control Center system; TANDEM NONSTOP HIMALAYA K200 computer; availability; device supervision system; dispatcher management system; embedded fail-safe railway interlocking system; fault tolerant computer; high performance; host computer; reliability; safety; software; train control system; Application software; Automatic control; Availability; Communication system control; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Rail transportation; Railway safety; Software safety; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fault-Tolerant Systems, 1997. Proceedings., Pacific Rim International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8212-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PRFTS.1997.640120

Filename

640120