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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2003
Paul Kenneth Houpt, Schenectady, NY (US);
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Clifton Park, NY (US);
Sunil Shirish Shah, Bangalore, IN;
Paul Kenneth Houpt, Schenectady, NY (US);
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Clifton Park, NY (US);
Sunil Shirish Shah, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
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.