Industrial research of a disruptive technology to monitor the health of rail subsurface infrastructure (hidden) assets in real time using innovative radar and visualisation technologies - Infrastructure Monitoring System (INFRAMONIT)

对破坏性技术进行工业研究，使用创新的雷达和可视化技术-基础设施监控系统(INFRAMONIT)实时监控铁路地下基础设施(隐藏)资产的健康状况。该项目简单地解决了如何维护地下基础设施的全球挑战。它专注于基于车载检测的智能维护，为基于状态的干预提供准确、及时的信息，并减少工人在运营铁路上或附近的需要。INFRAMONIT可以看到地面以下的轨道基础结构、轨道道碴、排水系统、路基、水管和公用设施、隧道衬砌、挡土墙和桥面结构。铁路基础设施必须满足客运和货运客户未来的需求，并且应该更可靠、更容易使用和更易于维护。INFRAMONIT提供使用智能内置传感器和新型雷达技术实时监控基础设施资产健康的创新。计划中的研究是一项关键的调查，目的是为了产品开发导致对当前最先进水平的改进。它将创建一个原型演示器，并将在实验室中使用模拟基础设施故障进行测试，以进行技术验证。它的目标是以更好的方式监控和可视化基础设施的状态，通过开发一种自动提供预防性维护计划的技术来避免中断列车服务，以便在故障发生之前完成维护。该项目将提供一种新的智能技术来检查和维护有弹性的综合铁路基础设施。该系统是创新的、独特的，来自Network Rail的运输基础设施经理相信它具有巨大的市场潜力。中小企业将利用该项目开始这项颠覆性的基础设施检测雷达技术的商业化开发。创新的主要焦点有两个，第一个是天线的新颖旋转运动学，它允许从车辆纵轴360度的条带上连续收集数据。与目前最先进的系统相比，这提供了显著的竞争优势，目前最先进的系统由几个垂直固定的天线组成，这些天线均匀地沿着车辆的侧轴放置。第二个重点是将原始雷达数据转换为地下可视化的基本处理软件，该软件将与原型并行开发。关键词：雷达、检查、可视化、预防性维护、铁路基础设施、弹性、能力、故障、修复、计划维护。

Industrial research of disruptive technologies to monitor the health of rail subsurface infrastructure (hidden) assets in real time using innovative radar and visualisation technologies -- Infrastructure Monitoring System (INFRAMONIT).This project simply addresses the global challenge of how to maintain subsurface infrastructure. It focuses on Intelligent Maintenance based on trainborne inspection which provides accurate, timely information for condition-based intervention and reduces the need for workers to be on or about the operating railway. INFRAMONIT can see below the surface to inspect rail substructure, rail ballast, drainage systems, subgrade, water pipes and utilities, tunnel linings, retaining walls and bridge surface structures. Rail infrastructure must meet the future needs of passenger and freight customers and should be more reliable, more readily available and easier to maintain.INFRAMONIT provides the innovations that monitor the health of the infrastructure assets in real time using smart, built-in sensors and novel radar technology. The planned research is a critical investigation for the purpose of product development leading to an improvement in the current state-of-the-art. It will create a prototype demonstrator which will be tested in a laboratory with simulated infrastructure failures for technology validation. It targets a better way of monitoring and visualising the status of infrastructure to avoid disrupting train services by developing a technology that automatically delivers preventive maintenance plans so that maintenance can be completed before a failure occurs.This project will provide a new smart technology to inspect and maintain resilient integrated rail infrastructure. The system is innovative, unique and the transport infrastructure managers involved from Network Rail are confident it has a large market potential. The SMEs will use the project to commence the commercial development of this disruptive technology of infrastructure inspection radar.There are two main foci of innovation, the first is the novel rotational kinematics of the antennae, which allows data to be collected continuously from a three-hundred sixty-degree swath about the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. This offers a significant competitive advantage over current state of the art systems, which consists of several vertically fixed antennae uniformly positioned along the vehicle's lateral axis. The second focus is on fundamental processing software to transform the raw radar data into subsurface visualisations, which will be developed in parallel with the prototype.Key words: radar, inspection, visualisation, preventative maintenance, rail infrastructure, resilience, capacity, failure, repair, planned maintenance.