Abstract:

In this paper, we propose to apply deep belief networks (DBN) to predict potential operational disruptions caused by rail vehicle door systems. DBN are a powerful algorithm that is able to detect and extract complex patterns and features in data and has demonstrated superior performance on several benchmark studies. A case study is shown whereby the DBN are trained and applied on real case study from a railway vehicle fleet. The DBN were shown to outperform a feedforward neural network trained by a genetic algorithm.