Patent ID: 6931995

Claim:
An automation system for train maintenance that performs train maintenance when the train is parked, comprising: storing means provided in a railway vehicle forming the train, feeding/discharging means, installed on the ground, for feeding the storage to be supplied to the storing means or discharging storage to be discharged from the storing means via a feeding/discharging opening; feeding/discharging opening shifting means for performing access movement in which the feeding/discharging opening of the feeding/discharging means is moved close toward the railway vehicle from a waiting location on the ground to connect the feeding/discharging opening to the storing means, and disconnection movement in which the feeding/discharging opening connected to the storing means is moved away from the railway vehicle toward the waiting location to disconnect the feeding/discharging opening from the storing means; parking determination means for determining whether the trains is parked; connection determination means for determining whether the feeding/discharging opening is connected to the storing means; feeding/discharging completion determination means for determining whether the feeding of the storage to be supplied or the discharge of the storage to be discharged is completed; access movement control means for urging the feeding/discharging opening shifting means to perform the access movement when the parking determination means determines that the train is parked; feeding/discharging movement control means for urging the feeding/discharging means to feed the storage to be fed or to discharge the storage to be discharged when the connection determination means determines that the feeding/discharging opening is connected to the storing means; and disconnection movement control means for urging the feeding/discharging opening shifting means to perform the disconnection movement when the feeding/discharging completion means determines that the feeding of the storage to be supplied or the discharge of the storage to be discharged is completed; and traveling direction shifting means for shifting the feeding/discharging opening along the traveling direction of the train, wherein said access movement control means urges said traveling direction shifting means to move said feeding/discharging opening to eliminate a gap between an actual parking position and a predetermined parking position of the train and urges said feeding/discharging opening shifting means to perform said access movement, when said parking determination means determines that said train is parked and there is such a gap.