Multimodal Learning for Arcing Detection in Pantograph-Catenary Systems

Hao Dong¹  Eleni Chatzi¹  Olga Fink²

¹ETH Zurich, ²EPFL

• arXiv 2026 •

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Proposed solution for arcing detection in pantograph-catenary systems with image and force measurements.

Dataset

The dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/hdong51/Open-AD/tree/main.

Code

python MultiDeepSAD.py --path /path/to/dataset

Citation

If you find our work useful in your research please consider citing our paper:

@article{dong2026arcing,
    title={Multimodal Learning for Arcing Detection in Pantograph-Catenary Systems},
    author={Dong, Hao and Chatzi, Eleni and Fink, Olga},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08792},
    year={2026}
}