2013
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Specialization in Industrial Control & Instrumentation Engineering
In fulfillment for the award of the degree
Of
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
In
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY – MEKELLE
EIT-M
MEKELLE, ETHIOPIA
JUNE, 2013
Mekelle University
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the dissertation entitled ―ADVANCED RAILWAY GATE CONTROL
AND TRACK SWITCHING SYSTEM‖ has been carried out by:
Ataklti Hagos
ID NO: CET/UR0111/01
Ephrem Gezae
ID NO: CET/UR0192/01
Fasil Desta
ID NO: CET/UR0202/01
Haile G/Mariam
ID NO: CET/UR0162/00
Samuel G/medhin
ID NO: CET/UR0463/01
At Ethiopian Institute of Technology-Mekelle, under our guidance in fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING (10th
Semester) of Mekelle University, during the academic year 2012-13.
Date: 20/06/03
Zenachew.M (MSc. In Electrical Power Eng‘)
Head Department of ECE
Ayalew.T (MSc. .)
Advisor
Mekelle University
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Signature
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Signature
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, we would like to thank God for his blessing, and we also want to express our deepest gratitude to our supervisor Mr. Ayalew Tefera (MSc.) for support and guidance throughout this Project.
Our deepest appreciation also goes out to Electrical & Computer Engineering department who gave us many needed support, encouragement and help throughout our Project, and our friends who struggling with us exploring this scope. Not to forget, thanks to our family and fellow friends who encouraged us.
Finally, thank you to all those involved directly and indirectly helping us out during our design &