Design and Implementation of Automatic Railway Gate Control System
| dc.contributor.author | Musa, Abdulwaheed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-05-07T20:13:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-05-07T20:13:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | usually opened or closed manually by a gate keeper. Many railway crossings are not manned because of lack of manpower. The few railway gates that are energized usually face the challenge of unavailability of electricity especially in developing countries. This and in the event that there is no one to operate the railway gate when a train approaches railway crossing, accidents could occur at such crossings. To avoid such accident and other forms of human intervention at railway crossings, an automatic railway gate control system has been designed and presented in this work. This paper describes the railway gate system operations and control involving track switching stage and level crossing stage using ATMEGA A328P for simulation. The work can be divided into hardware and software developments. The former includes the power supply unit (PSU), sensing system unit (SSU), general notification system unit (GNU) and manual override unit (MOU), while the latter essentially involves the necessary programming to operate the hardware components. The program for the system is based on ATMEGA A328P microcontroller with Arduino C programming language. Besides, the work introduced a light display system for basic operations and notifications such as stop, ready and go. Other forms of improvement on the existing railway gate control systems carried out in this work include sound initialization for notification count and also a locker sensor for manual override implementation. Reliability and continuity tests were carried out at every stage of the design and simulation for efficiency and effectiveness of the automatic railway gate systems, and to reduce the occurrence of railway accidents. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/6908 | |
| dc.title | Design and Implementation of Automatic Railway Gate Control System |