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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 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 and a plurality of electronic modules distributed within a locomotive. Each of the electronic modules is communicatively coupled to the network in a standardized scalable architecture. Each of the electronic modules may include at least a configurable controller that is reconfigurable to implement at least one control function associated with distributed control of the locomotive.