Abstract:In order to solve the problem that current dropping the steel wheel of rail-road vehicle needs manual assistance and the efficiency is low, a guiding wheel dropped detection system for rail-road vehicle was designed and implemented based on machine vision. The system made use of the camera mounted near the bogie to obtain the image information of the vehicle and the rail, and combined the algorithms of the Edge detection and Hough transform to detect the relative position of the ground marking line and the steel wheel of the vehicle,accordingly to calculate the distance and angle between the rail and the steel wheel of the vehicle finally. The measurement results were transmitted to the flat-panel monitor. in the cab through the industrial wireless network to assist the driver adjusting the position of the vehicle to complete the accurate landing. Experiments show that the system can effectively measure the distance between the rail and the steel wheel in real time. The measurement error is less than ±3mm, and the update time of the result is less than 200ms, which meets the requirements of the accuracy and real-time of the bogie dropping.