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AutoScan

AutoScan – Rail inspection by autonomous systems

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EC-Contrib. €

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life accurate 41m services inspections 300 822 probably 40 autoscan performs 15 3 operator made market reliability maintenance load jobs ndt least uk commercial competitive penetration position accurately trl6 2014 910m efficient regime detection 34 environment evaluation biggest train scheduling roi broken 276m optimise integrity 7m company sales spent lifecycle 455m repairing suitable partly 720km repair significantly rails companies prototype rail proven estimate intervention autonomous defects size 055 urgent anticipate revenues 215 1444 rapid robotic derailments flaw traffic safety tracks profits there speeds inspection alone walk operators trl 2bn frequent detecting network infrastructure found disruption reduce track

Project "AutoScan" data sheet

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Coordinator	I-MOSS NV Organization address address: CORBIELAAN 5 city: BERTEM postcode: 3060 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Belgium [BE]
Project website	http://www.autoscanproject.eu
Total cost	1˙822˙055 €
EC max contribution	1˙517˙894 € (83%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges) 2. H2020-EU.2. (PRIORITY 'Industrial leadership')
Code Call	H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1
Funding Scheme	IA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-06-01 to 2018-09-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	I-MOSS NV I-MOSS NV Organization address address: CORBIELAAN 5 city: BERTEM postcode: 3060 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (BERTEM)	coordinator	308˙634.00
2	TWI LIMITED TWI LIMITED Organization address address: GRANTA PARK GREAT ABINGTON city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL website: www.twi.co.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	427˙456.00
3	THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Organization address address: Edgbaston city: BIRMINGHAM postcode: B15 2TT website: www.bham.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (BIRMINGHAM)	participant	380˙730.00
4	NOMAD TECH LDA NOMAD TECH LDA Organization address address: RUA DENIZ JACINTO 270 city: PORTO postcode: 4350 059 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	PT (PORTO)	participant	203˙467.00
5	AUTOMATITZACIO DE PROCESSOS I MEDIAMBIENT SL AUTOMATITZACIO DE PROCESSOS I MEDIAMBIENT SL Organization address address: CARRER ANDORRA NAVE 2 22 city: SANT BOI DE LLOBREGAT postcode: 8830 website: www.promaut.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (SANT BOI DE LLOBREGAT)	participant	197˙606.00

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Project objective

There are 215,720km of rail track in Europe, of which 4,300 broken rails are found every year. Broken tracks are the biggest cause of derailments, leading to loss of life and major disruption to services. Maintenance costs for member states of repairing broken rails are around €2bn every year. With the rapid increase in train traffic, train speeds and load carried, there is an urgent need to optimise the maintenance regime and increase reliability of rail infrastructure. Overall integrity and safety maintenance costs in the UK alone are more than €2,276m in 2014, with 20-40% of that spent on tracks (€455m - €910m).

AutoScan system(TRL6); an autonomous robotic evaluation system that performs rapid NDT inspection of track, accurately detecting defects, their position and size so that accurate assessment and scheduling of repair work can be made by the network operator. Current methods or rail track inspection

AUTOSCAN will enable more frequent inspections of rail track which will significantly reduce lifecycle costs by enabling more efficient flaw detection and intervention. Operators will not need personnel to walk the track side, therefore improving safety. Overall inspection costs will reduce by at least 15% and probably significantly more

The aim of this project is to enhance the current prototype from TRL 6 to TRL 9 and develop a system proven in an operational environment suitable for commercial exploitation.

AutoScan will enable us to become more competitive within our major target market – Rail network operators and rail maintenance companies. With project development costs of €1,822,055 partly funded by company revenues, we aim to achieve a 2.3% European market penetration, with estimate sales revenues of €41M over the 5 years, with profits of €34.7M, providing an ROI of 1444%. We also anticipate creating over 50 jobs as a result of project AutoScan

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Development of business plan	Documents, reports	2019-07-19 11:26:11
Developement of marketing materials	Documents, reports	2019-07-19 11:26:10
Project website	Other	2019-07-19 11:26:10

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of AutoScan deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	M. Wang, M. Entezami, E. Stewart, R. Lewis and S. Mosey In-service Detection of Surface Cracks in Railhead using Rayleigh-wave EMATs published pages: , ISSN: 0195-9298, DOI:	Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation	2019-07-19
2018	Lloyd, O., R., Lewis, R., Charlton, P., Mosey., S Effects of Relative Motion on a Rayleigh Wave Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer Operating on Aluminium published pages: , ISSN: 2327-770X, DOI:	Insight The Journal of The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing 2018	2019-07-19
2017	M. Entezami, P. Weston, E. Stewart, G. Yeo, M. Wang, L. Saade, C. Roberts R. Lewis, M. Hayward, S. Morley, S. Bayram and T. Kono Lineside and On-board Monitoring Techniques for Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on High-Speed Lines published pages: , ISSN: 2049-5358, DOI:	The International Journal of Railway Technology	2019-07-19

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