ROUTE EXAMINING SYSTEM AND METHOD

Systems and methods for examining a route inject one or more electrical examination signals into a conductive route 108 from onboard a vehicle system 100 traveling along the route 108, detect one or more electrical characteristics of the route 108 based on the one or more electrical examination sign...

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Main Authors WHEELER, Frederick Wilson, NOFFSINGER, Joseph Forrest, POONACHA, Samhitha Palanganda, FRANGIEH, Tannous, PLOTNIKOV, Yuri Alexeyevich, NAYERI, Majid, MATTHEWS, Brett Alexander, FRIES, Jeffery Michael, KUMAR, Ajith Kuttannair, BOVERMAN, Gregory, STATON, Brian Lee, BROWN, Timothy Robert
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 01.03.2017
Subjects
ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
RAILWAYS
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:Systems and methods for examining a route inject one or more electrical examination signals into a conductive route 108 from onboard a vehicle system 100 traveling along the route 108, detect one or more electrical characteristics of the route 108 based on the one or more electrical examination signals, apply a filter to the one or more electrical characteristics, and detect a break in conductivity of the route 108 responsive to the one or more electrical characteristics decreasing by more than a designated drop threshold for a time period within a designated drop time period. Feature vectors may be determined for the electrical characteristics and compared to one or more patterns in order to distinguish between breaks in the conductivity of the route 108 and other causes for changes in the electrical characteristics.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20160186434