Automated Yard Inspection Robot – TAD

Details & Benefits

TAD’s Machine Learning capabilities allow it to navigate a variety of environments, ranging from asphalt to rocky ballast and snow. It navigates autonomously through GPS software by automatically detecting and assessing all obstacles around itself. TAD travels alongside a train and reads all AEI tags, assembling a list of cars and accompanying relevant data as a single or double-sided operation. Using this RFID and location information, TAD is capable of completing automated processes such as operating cut levers to detach cars from a train, locating brake rods and performing brake bleeds of designated cars, and patrolling the yard to gather trash and recyclables

TAD’s accompanying Pre-Screening Station identifies the location, shape, and angle of each air brake release valve on every train car, allowing TAD to perform fully automated brake bleed proceedures.