Design and Construction 0f An Automatic Railway Gate System

Abstract

    In modern technology is largely depends on automation and control system. Automation and control system refers the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, heat treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft, automobile and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention. The greatest advantage of automation and control system is that it saves labor as well as save energy and materials and to improve quality, accuracy and precision.  In the present  project  is  to  design  an  automatic  railway  gate  control  system to  replace the railway level crossings which are operated by the gatekeeper with an automatic system by  using microcontroller. This project deals with the development of  a prototype of a  railway gate that functions automatically during the train arrival and departure to minimize accident of level crossing between the railroads & highway. This types of accidents are happens due to the miss communication of pedestrian . The operation using microcontroller that integrated with other circuits are power supply, light dependent IR sensors, force resistive sensor, and gate servo motor. All the circuits are combined to demonstrate the operation of microcontroller. Two IR sensors have been used to detect the arrival and departure of the train. IR sensor will give the  signal to the Microcontroller and the Microcontroller will pass this signal to the servo motor and it will rotate as its requirement.  The novelty of this project is the use of Force Resistive sensor which has been integrated in this anti-collision system for the railway. By chance if a vehicle gets stuck at the level  crossing  of  the  rail-line,  the  pressure  sensor  will  detect  the  object  and  will  take  necessary  action  by following the developed algorithm. It is a very economical process to reduce the human effort as well as very reliable.