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Highly dynamic control of a test bench for high-speed train pantographs
CUSTOMERS PAGE 26 Electric rail vehicles must never lose contact with the power supply, not even at the highest speeds. But the complex interactions with the overhead con- tact line pose an enormous challenge for the calibration of pantographs. The Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and Siemens are therefore working on a new kind of test bench in order to transfer parts of the usual test runs to the lab. On board with them: tools from dSPACE. at 300 km/h Contact Contact Keeping Highly dynamic control of a test bench for high- speed train pantographs dSPACE Magazine 1/2016 · © dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany · info@dspace.com · www.dspace.comPAGE 27 T TU WIEN/SIEMENS >> he speed of today’s rail traffi c is constantly increasing. For exam- ple, reaching 300 km/h is no longe