SHUNTING LOCOMOTIVE AND METHOD OF ITS OPERATION WITHOUT DRIVER Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B60L11/02 B61L23/34 B61L27/04 G01S13/94 B61C5/00 

FIELD: electricity.

SUBSTANCE: shunting locomotive contains running gears, traction power transmission with a diesel generator set, feeding traction electric motors. At the end faces of the shunting locomotive, rangefinders of non-contact action are located, connected with the control device, which is connected to the excitation block of the traction generator. The locomotive contains a remote control device made in the form of an onboard specialized radio station, connected by a communication channel with the control device of the shunting locomotive. Rangefinders of non-contact action are installed at the level of automatic couplers, and their reading plane is parallel to the plane of the track. The reading line is formed by the intersection of the reading plane and the location plane of the automatic couplers of the carriage nearest along the motion, perpendicular to the track plane. The operation way of the shunting locomotive without the driver consists of continuous contactless monitoring of the reading line along the motion of the shunting locomotive and the stopping of the locomotive at the moment of coupling with the carriage.

EFFECT: ability to use the shunting locomotive in the fully automatic mode.

3 cl, 1 dwg