Existing Railway Horizontal Alignment Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Line Segments Identification

Abstract:

A Line Segments Identification model is put forward to realize the existing railway horizontal alignment reconstruction. Firstly, Hough transform based on constraint adjustment quantity is introduced to reject the abnormal points that will affect the quality of the identification in latter steps. Then total least square method is used to get the linear segments, after which the circular curve segments and the transition curves segments will be got. At last, an evaluation function which has four arguments: circular curve radius , two transition curves length and length of straight line between curves was built and its function value is the sum of squares of all distances from measuring points to reconstruction alignment, based on the function , optimal alignment will be solved out by Powell method. Example shows that the reconstruction result is considerably superior to the traditional method and is feasible for the engineering practice.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 405-408)
• Pages: 1772-1776
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.405-408.1772
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Wei Liu*, Jian Hong Wang, Yang Li, Wei Li
• Keywords: Hough Transform (HT), Line Segments, Optimal Alignment, POWELL, Reconstruction

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