AUTOMATIC RAILWAY GATE CONTROL

AND TRACK SWITCHING

Under the Guidance
:- Mr.B. Suresh Babu (M.Tech)
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Project Batch:- 18

D. Siva Sumanth (060429) K. N. V. Subrahmanyam (060449)

J. Mahesh (060446) G. Srikanth (060438)

ST.ANN’S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

CHIRALA
 OBJECTIVE

 To alert and save the people from the train accidents

at the unmanned railway gates.

 To restrict the train accidents by introducing an

application of track switching.

 This project is developed in order to help the INDIAN

RAILWAYS in making its present working system a better
one, by eliminating some of the loopholes existing in it.
BLOCK DIAGRAM
Gate closed
Track Section - B

Track Section- A
Gate closed

Ch-1 Ch-2 CH-3 Ch-4

Stepper motors

IO pins

A B

LPC 2129
Micro
controller

Stepper motor for track switching

 WORKING

 When the train is behind 5km the counter will tell the
micro controller to send the RF packet and stepper motor will
close the gate by rotating clockwise and glows red signal light.

 When the train crosses the gate then the counter

automatically opens the gate by rotating the motor in anti-
clockwise direction.

 We can use the same counter to detect two trains coming in

the same track in opposite direction and with the help of
stepper motor we could rotate the gear to switch the track.
EXAMPLE OF AN AUTOMATIC RAILWAY GATE
 AXLE COUNTERS

 An axle counter is a device on a railway that detects the

passing of a train instead of the more common track circuit.

 A counting head is installed at each end of the section, and

as each axle passes the head at the start of the section, a counter
increments.

 As the train passes a similar counting head at the end of the

section, the counter decrements.
 STEPPER MOTOR

 A stepper motor is a widely used

device that translates electrical pulses into mechanical movement.

 Stepper motors consist of a permanent magnet rotating shaft,

called the rotor, and electromagnets on the stationary portion that
surrounds the motor, called the stator.
 ADVANTAGES

 There is no time lag to operate the device.

 Accuracy.
 This can be further implemented to have control room to
regulate the working of the system. Thus becomes the user
friendliness.
 This circuit can be expanded and used in a station with any
number of platforms as per the usage.
 TOOLS

HARDWARE:-
 MICRO CONTROLLER
 AXLE COUNTERS
 STEPPER MOTOR

SOFTWARE:-

 KEIL SOFTWARE
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