著者

勝田 敬一 古関 隆章 曽根 悟

出版者

The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

雑誌

電気学会論文誌D(産業応用部門誌) (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.121, no.6, pp.705-712, 2001-06-01 (Released:2008-12-19)

参考文献数

5

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The train service in Japan looses rapidity, comfort and robustness against delays in morning peak hours especially, and it has been a serious social problem. On the other hand, the cost to purchase land for a new track is very high. An efficient train operation is proposed in this paper. The proposed train operation has substantially high rapidity and train density identical to a quadruple-track line, with a novel train scheduling based on full usage of a triple-track line. The significance of the proposed train operation on a triple-track line has been verified based on the calculations of waiting time and boarding time of passengers. Consequently train operators can keep the rapidity, moreover, raise track capacity by operating express and local trains like knitting on triple-track lines.

著者

古関 隆章 半田 伊吹 曽根 悟

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会誌 (ISSN:13405551)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.118, no.12, pp.744-747, 1998-12-01 (Released:2008-04-17)

著者

三好 正太 大西 亘 古関 隆章 佐藤 基

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌D(産業応用部門誌) (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.143, no.3, pp.242-255, 2023-03-01 (Released:2023-03-01)

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

2

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Boost converters are key components of DC power conversion used for electric mobility and renewable energy applications. In addition to constant voltage control of the output, variable voltage control has been attracting attention in recent years for high-efficiency drive of loads. However, the dynamic characteristics of boost converters exhibit nonlinear and nonminimum phase characteristics. Therefore, the inverse model for feedforward control is unstable, making high-precision voltage trajectory tracking control challenging. This study aims to present a noncausal and nonlinear feedforward controller to compensate for the nonlinear and nonminimum phase characteristics of the boost converter and to achieve perfect tracking control with respect to the output voltage trajectory. This study also establishes a method for identifying circuit parameters and deriving the time length of noncausal control input for practical implementation. The effectiveness of this control method is demonstrated by experiments using a boost converter.

著者

高 英聖 古関 隆章 宮武 昌史

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌D(産業応用部門誌) (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.125, no.12, pp.1084-1092, 2005 (Released:2006-03-01)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

22 33

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An algorithm optimizing train running profile with Bellman's Dynamic Programming (DP) is investigated in this paper. Optimal running trajectory of a train which minimizes amount of total energy consumption has been produced under fixed origin and destination, stipulated running time and various track profile. Many previous works on this area adopt the numerical techniques of calculus of variations, Pontryagin's maximum principle, and so on. But these methods often meet some difficulties accounting for complicated actual train running preconditions, e.g. complicated functions which describe electrical motive/brake torque, local constraints of the state variable as speed limitations, non-linear running resistance and variable grade profiles. Basic numerical DP algorithm can cope with such comlicated conditions and give the globally optimal solution. But this method consumes too large computation time for practical uses. We have made the improvements for shorter calculation time of whole optimization process and reducing the numerical error. The confined state space and irregular lattice play most important role for them. Dynamic meshing and effective utilization of system memory also realize shorter computation time. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using various complicated running conditions.

著者

古関 隆章

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会誌 (ISSN:13405551)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.118, no.3, pp.173-176, 1998-03-01 (Released:2008-04-17)

著者

森 拓哉 渡邉 翔一郎 古関 隆章

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌. D, 産業応用部門誌 (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.135, no.12, pp.1153-1159, 2015

被引用文献数

2

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Smart timetabling optimization is a cost-effective way to improve the quality of railway service. Partial introduction of rapid trains is one of the effective methods for improving passenger service quality. However, it is difficult to concretely perform smart train scheduling. In this paper, we apply mixed integer programming for minimizing the total travelling time of passengers to obtain optimal train scheduling for the combination of all-station and partially introduced rapid trains. This method requires higher computational time to obtain the optimal solution than other metaheuristic methods; however, the solution guarantees to be an optimal one. We also propose an appropriate method to digitize the OD (Origin Destination)-patterns, i.e., the traffic demand inputs between two stations, which are suitable for the framework of the proposed mixed integer programming method. We apply the method to a case study of a commercial subway and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed train service with the partial introduction of rapid trains.

著者

原 崇文 古関 隆章 岡田 万基 久富 浩平

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌. D, 産業応用部門誌 = The transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. D, A publication of Industry Applications Society (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.133, no.9, pp.909-916, 2013-09-01

参考文献数

9

被引用文献数

2

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Suppression of slip and reduction of friction between the rail and the wheel are important in railway systems. This paper proposes a novel slip re-adhesion control based on monitoring the excessive torque and the excessive angular momentum for four-axle and two-truck model. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been confirmed by mathematical analysis. In addition, the excessive angular momentum compensation of the proposed method was evaluated using real-world train test data. Furthermore, the proposed method can estimate the disturbance torque from real-world train test data.

著者

楊 中平 古関 隆章 曽根 悟

出版者

The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

雑誌

電気学会論文誌D(産業応用部門誌) (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.122, no.2, pp.104-110, 2002-02-01 (Released:2008-12-19)

参考文献数

8

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It is an important factor for railway services to take proper train rescheduling under disrupted conditions. This paper discusses the rescheduling problem in the case of resumption of train operation, in which the train operation has been temporarily suspended by an accident. The authors propose a novel rescheduling method using selective stops schedule pattern. The proposed rescheduling problem has been formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem, and it has been solved by the simulated annealing method. Finally, the proposed methods are applied to a typical commuter line, and the efficiency of these methods has been verified through simulations.

著者

渡邉 翔一郎 楊 哲 古関 隆章 近藤 圭一郎 水間 毅 濱﨑 康宏

出版者

一般社団法人 電気学会

雑誌

電気学会論文誌. D, 産業応用部門誌 (ISSN:09136339)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.134, no.8, pp.767-775, 2014

被引用文献数

16

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This paper presents a manual train operation assistance method for limiting braking power to avoid regeneration cancellation and to save train operation energy. This assistance system consists of on-board computers and interface devices. The braking assistance command is generated from a "dictionary" prepared to increase regenerated energy without any extension of train running time. In order to consider the power limitation and resolve assistance operation problems in terms of the operation delay time, this method was evaluated on a revenue service line. This paper proposes a "best effort method" for energy-saving train operation that does not use the conditions of other trains since train drivers cannot obtain information on the actual status of other trains in present railway systems. On-track tests showed that the power-limiting brake was effective on energy-saving for a train operation. The practical problem of the man machine interface for driver assistance was also intensively studied.