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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Electro-motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Michael Patrick Deitz, Naperville, IL (US);
James Frederick Wiemeyer, Home Glen, IL (US);
Dale Alexander Brown, LaGrange, IL (US);
Lawrence Stanley Przybylski, Lemont, IL (US);
Wayne Allen Rudolph, Lemont, IL (US);
Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a distributed control system for a locomotive. The distributed system may include a network and a plurality of electronic modules distributed within a locomotive. The plurality of electronic modules are communicatively coupled to the network in a standardized scalable architecture and implementing distributed control of the locomotive. A first electronic module of the plurality of electronic modules may include a first configurable controller and a memory that stores a configuration file received via the network. The first configurable controller may be reconfigurable based on the configuration file stored in the memory.