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This paper develops a new decision making method for optimal planning of railway maintenance operations using hybrid Model Predictive Control (MPC). A linear dynamic model is used to describe the evolution of the health condition of a segment of the railway track. The hybrid characteristics arise from the three possible control actions: performing no maintenance, performing corrective maintenance, or doing a replacement. A detailed procedure for transforming the linear system with switched input, and recasting the transformed problem into a standard mixed integer quadratic programming problem is presented. The merits of the proposed MPC approach for designing railway track maintenance plans are demonstrated using a case study with numerical simulations. The results highlight the potential of MPC to improve condition-based maintenance procedures for railway infrastructure.
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Su, Z. et al. (2015). Model Predictive Control for Maintenance Operations Planning of Railway Infrastructures. In: Corman, F., Voß, S., Negenborn, R. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24264-4_46
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