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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Electro-motive Diesel, Inc., LaGrange, IL (US);
James Fredrick Wiemeyer, Homer Glen, IL (US);
Michael Patrick Deitz, Naperville, 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, a plurality of electronic modules and a plurality of control elements distributed within the locomotive. Each of the electronic modules is communicatively coupled to the network in a standardized scalable architecture. Each of the electronic modules may be programmatically reconfigurable to implement distributed control of the locomotive. A first electronic module and a second electronic module of the plurality of electronic modules may be communicatively connected to one of the plurality of control elements via separate communication paths. The first electronic module may be configured to control the control element, and the second electronic module may be configured to control the control element when the first electronic module enters into a failure condition.