General Electric Company

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Scott Christopher Poeppel

Michael Allen Taylor

Neil Patrick Bradley

Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad

Muazzam Ul Azam

Maria Michelle Kauffman

Atul George Tharakan

Vinodh Kumar Sreenivasan

James Robert Connelly

Sagarika Das

Kusuma Kumari Maralla

A control apparatus includes a first controller configured to generate control signals for controlling an engine or other machine, a second controller configured to generate the control signals for controlling the machine, a transfer circuit, and an arbiter circuit. The transfer circuit is coupled between the machine and the controllers, and is configured to switch from a first state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the first controller to the machine, to a second state, where the transfer circuit passes the control signals from the second controller to the machine, responsive to receiving a first failure signal from the first controller. The arbiter circuit includes three (or more) arbiters, and is configured to control the transfer circuit from the first state to the second state responsive to any two of the three arbiters generating second signals indicative of failure of the first controller.

Apparatus and methods for allocating and indicating engine control authority

Marine control panel

Display screen or portion thereof of an engine control system with graphical user interface

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Grove City, PA, United States of America

Scott Christopher Poeppel