Group Leader: Dr. rer. nat. Martin Lauer

The possibility to shift the infrastructure for localization from the track into the train lowers the costs and increases the efficiency and safety of railway operation. The position of the train can be determined by combining different types of sensors, such as eddy current sensors, magnetic sensors and satellite navigation systems. Also lidar or cameras can be used for position estimation. Most systems gain their strength through algorithms that process the measured data and fuse it with information from digital track maps.

In this research area we are addressing techniques that allow on-board localization for trains and light railways.