AI based Solar Powered Railway Track Crack Detection and Notification System with Chatbot Support

Abstract

India is one of the fastest developing countries with significant advancement in the field of the railway network. There have been several incidents of railway accidents due to derailments caused by cracks in the railway track. These cracks generally go unnoticed due to irregular maintenance and manual track monitoring. In this work, we have proposed an solar powered autonomous vehicle called “Rail-Rakshak” for inspecting and detecting cracks in the railway line. The proposed robot moves along the path and detects the cracks. The exact location of the cracks is sent to the concerned authorities. The proposed robot leverages the concepts of Cloud Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP) for better visualization and interaction with the robot.