MissRail
MissRail® is a multi-user, multi-modal, multi-functional simulation platform for rail research and training.
Presentation
MissRail® is a tool developed at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, under the direction of Professor Frédéric Vanderhaegen. It is an original simulator, easy to implement, and dedicated to railway research and training.
Two demonstrators
Two demonstrators have been completed :
1) the MissRail® platform for railway research and training
.2) the INERSYG course (Railway Engineering and Guided Systems) for a semester of distance learning in the Transport Mobilities Networks subject of the Hauts-de-France Polytechnic University. The regional project CONPETISES (Pedagogical Control of Driving Tasks by Automated Systems), directed by Professor Frédéric Vanderhaegen and financed within the framework of the Start-AIRR device (Actions d'Initiatives Régionales pour la Recherche dedicated to technology transfers), allowed to refine the functionalities of MissRail® and to propose a new configuration with immersive helmet InnoRail.
MissRail® includes four main modules : a module for designing railway infrastructures in an urban context, a module for designing routes, a module for simulating driver's cabs and a module for simulating control stations. It is a Client/Server application allowing the connection of different users at the same time to operate each module. Several configurations are possible: wired, wireless, portable, fixed. MissRail® has been used to design different automated driving assistance tools (e.g., eco-driving assistance, anti-collision system, cruise control, vigilance control system) and to design accident scenarios mixing pedestrians, train drivers or car drivers, Figure 2.
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Various interaction modalities are available and a new version with immersive headset called InnoRail is now available, Figure 3.
The logo, name and code of MissRail® have been protected by the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France. The steps for the protection of the Intellectual Property of the InnoRail version are underway. The Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France is the first university to equip itself with such digital tools for low-cost and secure railway simulation, which can simulate several railway functions, involving different users, and this remotely or face-to-face, and allowing the rapid prototyping of train cabs or control centers for example.
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