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Author: Neil Narayan

Train Platform Optimization: Platy++

Post author By Neil Narayan
Post date December 13, 2018
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Team Members: Neil Narayan, Chin Yee Lee, and Leonardo Harth The Problem: Market-Frankford Line System Capacity SEPTA is currently looking for ways to improve performance on their most heavily used rail line: The Market-Frankford Line. To improve capacity, SEPTA has piloted A/B trains at peak and has started removing seats from trains. One area that […]

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Force Sensor Peak Detection

Post author By Neil Narayan
Post date November 14, 2018
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This tutorial gives an overview for how to determine the peak force read by a force sensor on an Arduino Uno board. There are many applications for this type of setup, but my particular one is for reading the weights of train cars as they roll over a single sensor. The algorithms shown here can […]