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 - https://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 - Schmidt, Bernd A1 - Wilbring, Daniela A1 - Franzen, Julian T1 - Wagon4.0 – the smart wagon for improved integration into Industry 4.0 plants T2 - Proceedings of the International Heavy Haul Association STS Conference 2019 N2 - In many instances, freight vehicles exchange load or information with plants that are or will soon be Industry4.0 plants. The Wagon4.0 concept, as developed in close cooperation with e.g. port or mine operations, offers a maximum in railway operational efficiency while providing strong business cases already in the respective plant interaction. The Wagon4.0 consists of main components, a power supply, data network, sensors, actuators and an operating system, the so called WagonOS. The Wagon OS is implemented in a granular, self-sufficient manner, to allow basic features such as WiFi-Mesh and train christening in remote areas without network connection. Furthermore, the granularity of the operating system allows to extend the familiar app concept to freight rail rolling stock, making it possible to use specialised actuators for certain applications, e.g. an electrical parking brake or an auxiliary drive. In order to facilitate migration to the Wagon4.0 for existing fleets, a migration concept featuring five levels of technical adaptation was developed. The present paper investigates the benefits of Wagon4.0-implementations for the particular challenges of heavy haul operations by focusing on train christening, ep-assisted braking, autonomous last mile and traction boost operation as well as improved maintenance schedules Y1 - 2019 N1 - International Heavy Haul Association STS Conference, 10th to 14th June 2019, Narvik, Norway 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 -