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Identification of Wheel-Rail Contact Condition Using Multi- Kalman Filtering Approach

Keywords: Wheel Rail Contact, Estimation, Kalman Filters, Fuzzy Logic.

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 31 ,  Issue 4

Imtiaz   Hussain , Ali Asghar Memon   , Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry   ,

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