Diagnosis of Wheel Slide Protection Systems for rail vehicles

The paper presents the diagnostic system of Wheel Slide Protection Systems (WSP) for rail vehicles. The overall goal of diagnostic system of a traction rail vehicle is described. The principles of operation of WSP devices for rail vehicles are presented, as well as relation between WSP systems and overall safety of the train passengers is presented. Means of promoting WSP security given in European normative documents are described. The tasks and algorithm of the monitoring system are proposed. Simulation model implemented in Matlab Simulink^® and the simulation results are presented.