报告题目：Smarter Railways Through Virtual Coupling Control  

报告人： Xiaohua Ge

报告时间：2025年12月17日（周三）下午15:00

报告地点：自动化学科楼321会议室

主办单位：中国·太阳集团tyc9728(Macau)股份有限公司-Official website

Dr Xiaohua Ge(葛晓华博士)简介

2014年博士毕业于澳大利亚的中央昆士兰大学，现就职于澳大利亚的斯威本科技大学工程学院，为该学院副教授。主要研究方向为先进控制理论及其在交通及能源等领域的应用。已在知名国际期刊上发表高水平SCI论文140+篇，其中8篇发表在/; 84篇在19本不同的/杂志上。连续入选2019~2025年科睿唯安-全球“高被引学者”榜单，获得了包括威本科技大学最高的“校长卓越研究奖”、2019年和2022年的IEEE SMC协会 “Andrew P. Sage最佳汇刊论文奖”、2022年的自动化学报英文版杂志“最佳青年编委称号”。目前是IEEE高级成员，曾担任IEEE工业电子学会网络控制系统和应用技术委员会副主席。现担任/曾担任七本，包括 , , , , ，相关领域内SCI杂志的副编辑。还曾担任了10本，包括, , ,   ，等SCI期刊的客座编辑。

报告摘要：

Railways around the world are facing ever-increasing demands from booming passenger and freight transportation. Constructing new railways is not always possible due to the high cost and the lack of space. Virtual coupling (VC), which allows multiple trains to run cooperatively and closely on the same rail track, stands out as a major technological enabler for improving the existing railway network capacity and operation flexibility. However, the VC implementation in today’s railway systems faces significant challenges in terms of technology, operation, infrastructure, layout, deployment, and security.  

In this talk, from a railway signalling and control perspective, I will provide an overview of railway VC. I will start this talk with a brief background on train signalling and control systems in railway industry. Next, I will introduce the VC concept and provide a brief review of emerging VC control techniques for railways. Then, leveraging my own research experience, several case studies on railway VC will be presented for demonstration and verification. Finally, potential future topics for achieving better VC control development and implementation will be briefly discussed.