A.R.T.I.

S [Automated Railway Track

Inspection System]
Mentor: Cmde(Retd.) Anil Kumar Sharma

Team members:
• Gurmandeep Singh 101506062 gurman522@gmail.com
• Harshit Kashyap 101506067 hkashyap0809@gmail.com
• Himanshu Mittal 101506069 mhimanshu059@gmail.com
• Himanshu Vasu 101506071 himanshua8@gmail.com
• Raghav Aggarwal 101686008 raghavaggarwal19@gmail.com
• Rajesh Prajapati 101686009 rajeshprajapati185@gmail.com

Abstract
Despite significant technological advancement in the field of preventive and corrective railway
track maintenance, frequent instances of material failure of tracks still occur around the world
leading to loss of precious lives and assets.
Currently, railways around the world employ track circuit based signaling systems to mitigate the
danger of derailments. Though the conventional track circuit based techniques have reduced the risk
of broken track derailments, but they are not effective enough as they do not detect a substantial
percentage of rail breaks in which electrical continuities are maintained. Further, need exists to
detect track failures to initiate early warning where no traffic signaling exists. In addition to
detection of clean breakages in track, the need also exists to detect longitudinal and lateral
deformations and hairline fractures embedded in the material that may jeopardize railway safety.
Within the current scope of the capstone project, we plan to develop a prototype to detect clean
brakes, deformations and fractures that have the potential to increase with passage of time to impact
safety adversely, using on board micro-controller and sensor circuitry to detect, classify and
transmit health of railway track to a nearby control center. In addition, the team will also study
feasibility of converting the prototype in to an autonomous rover that will perform railway track
inspection and disengage itself on detection of an incoming train on the same track followed by
resumption of operation once the train has cleared the track.

Undergraduate courses utilized in the execution of this project:

 Computer Programming - I (UTA007)
 Engineering Design - III (UTA001)
 Engineering Materials (UES012)
 Embedded Systems (UEC608)

IEEE Standards utilized in the projects:

 802.21 - IEEE Standard For Global System For Mobile Communication
 802.22 – IEEE Standard For Global Positioning System
 2700-2014 – IEEE Standard For Sensor Performance Parameter Definitions