JR East is developing a new system to detect people and cars on the tracks, aiming to introduce automatic driving of railways, and the state of the demonstration test was released on the 2nd.
JR East is aiming to introduce automatic driving of railways, where only staff members are on board without the driver. We are developing a system to detect
On the 2nd, a demonstration test was conducted at a rolling stock depot in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, where mannequins and small cars were placed on the tracks. It was displayed as "There is something" or "Caution".
When introducing automated driving in the future, we aim to use it so that even the staff alone can respond to emergency stops, etc., and from next fiscal year we will install it on some commercial trains and conduct verification tests. We collect data under the following conditions.
Takahiro Kikuchi, head of JR East's Advanced Railway System Development Center, said, "Although there are still technical issues to be overcome in order to properly detect trains on behalf of humans, we would like to accumulate a large amount of data and determine the accuracy and performance of detection." was