Monday, January 10, 2011

BTech Mini Project - Collision Avoidance of Trains

From the beginning man has been seeking various ways to make travel
easy. First he used animals as their travelling media. Then he went on to make
vehicles pulled by animals and again vehicles pulled by engines. From there he
progressed to trains and aeroplanes, which travel by air. But train has been a
remarkable invention of man. It made travel easy and cheap. One of the main
problems associated with trains are the collision between them. Unlike other
vehicles, when the trains collide thousands of lives are harmed. This makes it vital
to avoid train collisions.
The project aims at developing a low cost mechanism to avoid collision.
Available mechanism is highly expensive. The system consists of a transmitter and
a receiver section which are interfaced with the microcontroller. This system is
installed in both trains. The system stops the trains if they are travelling in opposite
direction, on the same track simultaneously and are between adjacent stations.
Otherwise it will not interfere with the train’s working. These are all programmed
in the microcontroller. The source and destination stations as well as track number
and station code of last stopped station are entered using key.


Download B.Tech Mini Project Collision Avoidance of Trains (3.3 MB)

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