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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2003
Paul Kenneth Houpt, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sunil Shirish Shah, Bangalore, IN;
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Clifton Park, NY (US);
David So Keung Chan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Manthram Sivasubramaniam, Bangalore, IN;
Raj Mohan Bharadwaj, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Purnaprajna Raghavendra Mangsuli, Bangalore, IN;
Venkateswaran Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling a plurality of locomotives, the locomotives being responsive to a plurality of discrete actual commands, the apparatus comprising: a combination generator adapted for generating combinations of the discrete actual commands to yield a command combination set; a performance calculator adapted for calculating a performance parameter set from the command combination set; a feasible combination selector adapted for selecting a feasible combination subset from the command combination set as a function of a discrete performance setpoint, a performance tolerance, and the performance parameter set; an objective function calculator adapted for calculating an objective function set from the feasible combination subset; and an optimal command selector adapted for selecting an optimal command combination from the feasible combination subset corresponding to an optimum value of the objective function set.