Real-Time Techniques for Fault Detection on Railway Door Systems

This paper focuses on real-time techniques for fault detection in railway assets through large real-world datasets. It aims to investigate data mining methods to detect faulty behaviour in time series data. A fault detection on railway door systems is carried out using motor current and encoder signal. The door data highlighted start-stop characteristics, with discontinuities in the data. This paper presents a successful fault detection technique, which is a feature-based machine learning method that requires several steps for time-series data processing, such as signal segmentation and the extraction of features. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce the dimensionality of the extracted feature set and generate condition indicators. Then, the k-means algorithm is employed to separate normal and abnormal behaviour. This is followed by an evaluation of the proposed method and discussion about current challenges and prognosis possibility.