TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Burnham, Keith J.
T1  - On abstraction and interpretability: a behavioural perspective
JF  - Systems Science
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 0137-1223
VL  - Vol. 35
IS  - Iss. 2
SP  - 19
EP  - 26
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Enning, Manfred
A1  - Sutter, Stefan
T1  - A risk‑based approach to automatic brake tests for rail freight service: incident analysis and realisation concept
JF  - SN Applied Sciences
N2  - This study reviews the practice of brake tests in freight railways, which is time consuming and not suitable to detect certain failure types. Public incident reports are analysed to derive a reasonable brake test hardware and communication architecture, which aims to provide automatic brake tests at lower cost than current solutions. The proposed solutions relies exclusively on brake pipe and brake cylinder pressure sensors, a brake release position switch as well as radio communication via standard protocols. The approach is embedded in the Wagon 4.0 concept, which is a holistic approach to a smart freight wagon. The reduction of manual processes yields a strong incentive due to high savings in manual
labour and increased productivity.
KW  - Freight rail
KW  - Brake test
KW  - Incident analysis
KW  - Train composition
KW  - Brake set-up
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x
SN  - 2523-3971
N1  - Corresponding author: Raphael Pfaff
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Larkowski, Tomasz
A1  - Burnham, Keith J.
T1  - An application of adaptive control in the behavioural framework
T2  - 21st International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng) : 16 - 18 Aug. 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada ; proceedings
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 978-1-4577-1078-0 ; 978-0-7695-4495-3
SP  - 49
EP  - 54
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Larkowski, Tomasz
A1  - Burnham, Keith J.
T1  - An approach to adaptive control in the behavioural framework
T2  - UKACC International Conference on Control 2010 (CONTROL 2010) : Coventry, United Kingdom, 7 - 10 September 2010 ; Vol. 2. (IET seminar digest ; 2010/004)
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-1-62748-119-9
SP  - 833
EP  - 838
PB  - Curran
CY  - Red Hook, NY
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Melcher, Karin
A1  - Franzen, Julian
T1  - Rare event simulation to optimise maintenance intervals of safety critical redundant subsystems
T2  - Proceedings of the European Conference of the PHM Society
Y1  - 2018
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Moshiri, Amir
A1  - Reich, Alexander
A1  - Gäbel, Markus
T1  - Modelling of the effect of sanding on the wheel-rail adhesion area
T2  - First International Conference on Rail Transportation
Y1  - 2017
N1  - 2017 ICRT;
International Conference on Rail Transportation <1, 2017, Chengdu, China>
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Pichler, Alexander
A1  - George, Alfred
A1  - Seiler, Friedrich
T1  - Model based image processing for flow visualisation : 16th International Conference on Systems Science, Wroclaw, Poland, September 04 - 06, 2007
T2  - PU / Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis ; 2007, 620
Y1  - 2007
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - ISL
CY  - Saint Louis, France
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Schmidt, B. D.
A1  - Enning, Manfred
T1  - Towards inclusion of the freight rail  system in the industrial internet of things - Wagon 4.0
T2  - Stephenson  Conference, London, March 2017
Y1  - 2017
N1  - IMechE Stephenson Conference <2017, London, United Kingdom>
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Shahidi, Parham
A1  - Enning, Manfred
T1  - Connected freight rail rolling stock: a modular approach integrating sensors, actors and cyber physical systems for operational advantages and condition based maintenance
T2  - Asia-Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Asia-Pacific Conference of the
Prognostics and Health Management Society, Jeju, Korea 2017
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Vinsonneau, B.
A1  - Burnham, K. J.
T1  - Multiple models for nonlinear systems
T2  - Proceedings / Eigteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering : ICSE 2006 : 5 - 7 September 2006 ; [held at Coventry University, UK]
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 1-84600-013-0
SP  - 347
EP  - 352
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Seiler, Friedrich
A1  - Pichler, Alexander
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - George, Alfred
A1  - Srulijes, Julio
T1  - Improved Doppler picture velocimetry and new automated processing
T2  - 14th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics : Lisbon, Portugal, 7 - 10 July 2008
Y1  - 2008
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seiler, Friedrich
A1  - Pichler, Alexander
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Srulijes, Julio
T1  - Novel processing tools for automated doppler picture velocimetry (DPV) evaluation
JF  - Journal of visualization
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 1343-8875
VL  - Vol. 12
IS  - Iss. 4
SP  - 323
EP  - 337
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Shahidi, Parham
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Enning, Manfred
T1  - The connected wagon - a concept for the  integration of vehicle side sensors and actors with cyber physical  representation for condition based maintenance
T2  - First International Conference on Rail Transportation
Y1  - 2017
N1  - 2017 ICRT;
International Conference on Rail Transportation <1, 2017, Chengdu, China>
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  -