A Mechatronic Real-Time Model for Railway Vehicle Emulation

The Interoperability Technical Specification of European Railway led up the definition of new standards to provide unified test procedures for all railway components. In particular, it is necessary to perform traction and braking tests to verify the traction controller performance before entry into service. To make less expensive and faster this procedures, which is carried out actually on real railway vehicles, a new test bench, combining software with hardware in the loop, was developed. This paper presents the new mechatronic real-time model of the railway vehicle used on this test bench to emulate the behaviour of the real system.