Method and apparatus for controlling a railway consist

An apparatus for controlling a railway consist, the apparatus comprising: a consist model adapted for computing an objective function from a set of candidate driving plans and a set of model parameters; a parameter identifier adapted for calculating the model parameters from a set of consist measure...

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Main Authors HOUPT PAUL KENNETH, MATHEWS, JR. HARRY KIRK, SHAH SUNIL SHIRISH
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.10.2006
Subjects
BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS
GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC
MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PHYSICS
RAILWAYS
REGULATING
SIGNALLING
SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
TRANSPORTING
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Summary:An apparatus for controlling a railway consist, the apparatus comprising: a consist model adapted for computing an objective function from a set of candidate driving plans and a set of model parameters; a parameter identifier adapted for calculating the model parameters from a set of consist measurements; and a trajectory optimizer adapted for generating the candidate driving plans and for selecting an optimal driving plan to optimize the objective function subject to a set of terminal constraints and operating constraints.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20030670891