<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>An optical structured illumination of 3D object as a light band method for automatic noncontact wear measurement and defects detection of a contact wire network is presented. The experimental device can extract main technological wire parameters like remaining height with RMS value down to 0.15 mm. Also the cross-sectional area of the wire can be measured with RMS area noise value of 1.5 mm2, which is sufficient for a confident decision-making related to the automatic wire wears and defects on railways, tram and trolleybus lines, and similar systems of vehicles electro-supply.</p></abstract>

An optical structured illumination of 3D object as a light band method for automatic noncontact wear measurement and defects detection of a contact wire network is presented. The experimental device can extract main technological wire parameters like remaining height with RMS value down to 0.15 mm. Also the cross-sectional area of the wire can be measured with RMS area noise value of 1.5 mm2, which is sufficient for a confident decision-making related to the automatic wire wears and defects on railways, tram and trolleybus lines, and similar systems of vehicles electro-supply.

Optical Remote Dimensional Inspection of Live Contact Wire in Train's Electro-Supply Network

Technological Design Institute of Scientific Instrument Engineering, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 41, Russkaya str., Novosibirsk, 630058, Russia

Novosibirsk State University, 2, Pirogova str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

Measurement Science Review

An optical structured illumination of 3D object as a light band method for automatic noncontact wear measurement and defects detection of a contact wire...

Optical Remote Dimensional Inspection of Live Contact Wire in Train's Electro-Supply Network

Published Online: May 06, 2008

Page range: 37 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10048-008-0010-2

Keywords
structured light method, non-contact remote inspection, profiling, shape measurement, contact wire

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Optical Remote Dimensional Inspection of Live Contact Wire in Train's Electro-Supply Network

Published Online: May 06, 2008

Page range: 37 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10048-008-0010-2

Keywordsstructured light method, non-contact remote inspection, profiling, shape measurement, contact wire

This content is open access.

Keywords
structured light method, non-contact remote inspection, profiling, shape measurement, contact wire