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Automated Track Centerline Following for Drone Flight Automation

VisioStack Inc. completed initial research to automate drone inspection flights over railroad track using real-time rail detection and track centerline following to simulate flight control without Global Positioning System (GPS) information. Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS, or drones) are platforms...

Higher Reliability and Capacity Train Control

Researchers developed new concepts of train control systems that could potentially offset the negative impacts to train operations introduced by the current implementation of PTC (Overlay PTC). They investigated the effects on railroad network operation caused by the operation of PTC, such as...