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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 110
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 262

Hardware in the Loop Testing as a Tool for Pantograph Virtual Homologation

A. Facchinetti and S. Bruni

Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Facchinetti, S. Bruni, "Hardware in the Loop Testing as a Tool for Pantograph Virtual Homologation", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 262, 2016. doi:10.4203/ccp.110.262
Keywords: hardware-in-the-loop, real-time models, pantograph-catenary interaction, virtual homologation.

Summary
This paper addresses the "hardware-in-the-loop" simulation (HILS) of pantograph-catenary interaction. The paper mainly focus on "closed-loop" HILS, analysing the influence of some modelling options and reporting its validation against line measurements. The main features of the "open-loop" and "closed-loop" HIL testing approaches with respect to some typical tasks of pantograph virtual homologations and, more generally, in the perspective of supporting the development of a pantograph system, are then discussed.

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