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Development and realization of a manipulator for automatic decoupling of freight cars in marshalling yards

Last updated on 02 November 2012 5:23

The German Railway (Deutsche Bahn AG) intends to introduce an automatic coupler for freight cars to increase the efficiency of the marshalling process and to humanize it. To speed up the train-handling process in the approach zone and the train-formation process in the distribution yard, a manipulator is needed. This...

Author(s): Jenayeh Imad;M?ller Christian;Enning Manfred;Rake Heinrich;Peter J?rgen

Organisation(s): Institute of Automatic Control, RWTH Aachen ; Deutsche Bahn ;

1997

Germany

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