1. AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems
Andrew Starr

2. Welcome
Contents
Introduction to TES Institute and Cranfield rail group
Introduction to AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems
Challenges ahead

3. Through-life Engineering Services Institute
Integrated Vehicle Health Management Centre
EPSRC National Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services
TESI
core staff

4. Cranfield Rail Group
Technical
Safety and behaviour
Business

5. Rail group - Technical Heat dissipation from brake discs
Diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance planning for electro-mechanical systems
Air quality monitoring using optical fibre sensors
Complex Systems for optimizing rail networks
Diagnosis, condition monitoring and prognosis for machines; motors, gears, generators;
Rail monitoring with optical fibre grating sensors

6. Tramway deployment of FBG sensors
Instrumented fishplate

7. Rail Group Safety and behaviour
Passenger Safety Research: perceptions of risk and safety on the railway network
Passenger safety in rail crashes
Passenger information requirements in safety related situations on the railway network
Driving Research Group: working with the private and public sector on driver behaviour.
Human factors in rail and road safety.

8. Rail Group - Business
Transaction costs within rail firms; franchised train operating firms in Britain; benchmarking of train operating firms; deregulation and globalisation;
Competition between air transport and high-speed rail in Japan
Environmental impacts

9. AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems
Part of the Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Programme
Integrating:
Data fusion and mobile platforms
Planning and scheduling
Cost analysis

10. Our team
Andrew Starr,
Professor of Maintenance Systems, Head of Integrated Maintenance Centre
Antonios Tsourdos, Professor of Informatics and Systems Engineering, Head of Autonomous Systems Group,
Ashutosh Tiwari,
Professor of Manufacturing Informatics, Head of Product and Service Innovation Centre
Dr Essam Shehab, Senior Lecturer in Decision Engineering
Dr Yuchun Xu, Lecturer in Cost Engineering
Dr Paul Baguley, Research Fellow in Cost Engineering
Dr Christopher Turner, Research Fellow

11. AUTONOM - Integrated through-life support for high-value systems - structure
Integration
Data fusion and mobile
platforms
Planning and Scheduling
Cost Analysis
Foundations
Validation
Applications
Design
Think-tank
Identify business processes
Best practice cost modelling
Definitions
Fusion strategy
Design strategy
Monitoring design strategy
Optimisation framework
Models
Frameworks for integration and benefits
Partner benefits
Fusion case studies
Reporting architecture
Validation
Validation

13. No Fault Found
Switch machines
Track circuits
Doors

14. Data rich problems Location: Fixed beacon (balise) Moving sensors
Ultrasonic
Laser
Terabytes per day

15. Data poor problems Old structures Difficult, infrequent inspections
Very old records

16. Challenges
Requirements for interchange of maintenance data between fixed and mobile actors
Automation of monitoring on mobile platforms, and interface with other actors
New cost modelling tools for complex distributed health monitoring, and value to the business.

17. Thank you for your attention.
Contacts
Thank you for your attention.
Andrew Starr
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Cranfield University, UK