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
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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.