Control Strategies for Personal Rapid Transit System

摘要

This paper presents a control system design for personal rapid transit (PRT) system and a configuration of an apparatus to assess its control scheme. The control system can be divided into two parts: one is for the vehicle management system that is related with the supervision of the vehicle operation and the other is for the vehicle operational control scheme that is placed in the lower position of the control hierarchy. In this paper we focus on the vehicle operational control scheme that is one of the important features of PRT to guarantee the PRT system performance. In this paper the operational control scheme that can be implemented by using the commercial process boards is proposed and a simple vehicle control algorithm for test is uploaded to it. The calculation results of the process boards are compared with the simulation results that are provided by a simulation platform that combines Matlab/Simulink and Labview Simulation Interface Toolkit.