TRACK STRAIGHTENING-TAMPING MACHINE AND OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEM OF SAID MACHINE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC E01B35/00 B61K9/08 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: proposed machine comprises frame resting on bogies, tie tamping device and lifting-straightening device, measuring tool and platform coupled with said platform, test bogie and video cameras to observe track top structure. Test bogie is equipped with controller, track geometry pickup, equipment to process global navigation satellite system signals, optoelectronic measurement system and video data processing unit. Said optoelectronic system comprises, at least, one radiation source, data processing unit and photo receiver. Reference mark makes radiation source. Said reference mark comprises modulated LED, LED control circuit, photo receiver and self-contained power source. Photo receiver comprises two receive-and-analyse systems, inclination transducer and control module including data signal processor and photo receiver. One on the inputs of data processing unit is connected with inclination pickup, second input is connected with receive-and-analyse systems and third input is connected with data signal processor.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of track location measurement.

6 cl, 4 dwg