AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM OF FREIGHT TRAINS OF INCREASED WEIGHT AND LENGTH WITH LOCOMOTIVES DISTRIBUTED BY TRAIN LENGTH Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B61C17/12 B60L15/32 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: automated driving system of freight trains of increased weight and length with locomotives distributed along the train length contains a central processor installed on each locomotive, connected with an auto-driving unit. The auto-driving unit is made with the possibility to implement on each locomotive its own programme of driving by a data receiving/transmission unit, a data entry unit, an indicating unit, and a unit of controlling system actuators based on information from the sensor unit and the memory unit. The system contains an analysis unit of traction currents, installed on each locomotive. Wherein, to ensure the possibility of the system working on a head locomotive and slave locomotives by various algorithms, the traction current analysis unit on the head locomotive is connected to the central processor unit, and on the slave locomotives it is disconnected from the CPU of the corresponding locomotive.

EFFECT: increasing the reliability of the automated driving system for freight trains of increased weight.

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