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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2022
Progress Rail Services Corporation, Albertville, AL (US);
Keith Wesley Wait, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Marcos Blanco Fernandes, Irving, TX (US);
Progress Rail Services Corporation, Albertville, AL (US);
Abstract
A method of controlling one or more locomotives in a train includes using a machine learning engine and a virtual system modeling engine to model and classify sections of track along which the train is traveling according to the tractive power needs for the train traversing each section of track as a function of an effective weight profile for the train in the section and an effective friction profile for the train in the section of track. The method includes using the results of the effective weight profile, the effective friction profile, and an effective power availability profile to train the virtual system modeling engine using the machine learning engine to model designated areas of the track where the total tractive effort force or dynamic braking force applied by all of the locomotives in the train is less than a tractive effort force or dynamic braking force, respectively, that can be provided by a subset of the available locomotives in the train.