DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAILWAY POINT ELECTRIC HEATING INTELLECTUAL CONTROL ALGORITHM

The article reviews and describes the problems of the railway point heating conventional control system considering its structure, simple design, disadvantages and nonconformity. As a solution to the described problem, an innovative and advanced point heating control algorithm is proposed based on Mathlab’s Fuzzy Logic Designer module, which will allow control of heating more effectively and intellectually. The tasks for the advanced and intellectual point heating control system were set. The interdependency of different input variables and their weights of the proposed algorithm are shown and described. Conclusions show that the approach of introducing a control algorithm based on Fuzzy Logic will allow to control point heating in a more advanced and efficient way switching on and off based on the interdependency of different weather conditions and weather forecast; the input data control system will decide automatically when to switch the heating on and off.