An Approach to Testing the Hardware Modules of Locomotive Driver Console Simulator

Abstract

This work is devoted to the designing, debugging and testing of driver training simulators and other similar systems built using the RS-485 data interface and the MODBUS protocol. The modern microcontrollers and microprocessors allow creating these simulators with reproducing the realistic conditions for the drivers. The main problem in the development of such simulators is the need to create many unique hardware modules based on real prototypes, which leads to the need to create a universal platform with unified testing protocols and interfaces. The approach to this problem requires the implementing the same unified debugging system for designed hardware modules also. The main aim of this work is the development of new solutions for testing the hardware modules of the locomotive driver console simulator.