LOCOMOTIVE CONTROL DEVICE Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC B61L25/04 

FIELD: railway engineering.

SUBSTANCE: locomotive control means. The locomotive control device consists of an inter-module interface (1), an amplifier (2) of an electro-pneumatic valve, an electro-pneumatic valve EPV (3), a safe control circuit (4), modules (5) and (6) of the central data processing of MCO, modules (7) and (8) for measurement of motion parameters, a block (9) of distance and speed sensors, modules (10) and (11) of continuous channels of external devices ED, receiving coils (12) CACS and ICA-CA, module (13) of the route, receiver (14) for satellite navigation, radio channel module (15), radio modem (16), message encoding/decoding unit (17), awareness control unit (18) with handle (20), driver interface unit (19), control subsystem unit (32) shunting mode control SMC, block (33) for monitoring the machine vision subsystem MV, block (34) for extended logic control of the block (32) for the shunting mode control subsystem, block (35) for an additional safety device for the shunting mode SD, block (21) for supporting the unmanned train driving mode, including an internal interface (22), blocks (23) and (24) sensors for detecting and positioning obstacles on the way in front of the train, a memory module (25) with a database of the actual history of movement along the routes of the train recorded in it, processors (26) and (27) for handling patterns of signals reflected from possible obstacles and from selected roadside infrastructure objects, modules (28) and (29) of controlled artificial neural networks for recognition of obstacles and patterns of operational situations for train control, modules (30) and (31) of strict logical quality control of the calculation.

EFFECT: increased traffic safety in shunting mode when using unmanned train controls.

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