Sensor signal processing system and method
AssigneeTransportation IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsBret Worden, Jingjun Zhang, David Petersen
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Abstract
A sensor system includes one or more sensors that sense vibrations of a vehicle and one or more processors that can determine a speed of the vehicle and determine whether the vibrations occurring at one or more frequencies of interest (that are based on the speed of the vehicle) indicate damage to a propulsion system of the vehicle. The one or more processors optionally may determine a hunting frequency of a wheel and axle set and/or a lateral acceleration of the wheel and axle set from the vibrations. The one or more processors can determine a conicity of a wheel in the wheel and axle set based on the hunting frequency and/or the lateral acceleration that is determined.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to sense vibrations of a vehicle;
- one or more processors configured to determine a rotational speed of a wheel associated with the vehicle and one or more frequencies of interest based on the rotational speed of the wheel associated with the vehicle;
- the one or more processors further configured to determine which of the one or more frequencies of interest are responsive to gears within a propulsion system of the vehicle meshing with each other;
- wherein the one or more processors are further configured to i) determine a ratio of a circumference of the wheel to a circumference of one of the gears, and ii) multiply the ratio with the one or more frequencies of interest to determine which of the one or more frequencies of interest of the vibrations are caused by the gears within the propulsion system meshing with each other, wherein the vibrations associated with the gears occurring at greater frequencies than the vibrations associated with the wheel;
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- wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine whether the vibrations indicate damage to one or more of a bearing, axle, or motor of the propulsion system responsive to the vibrations occurring at the greater frequencies associated with the gears and based on a magnitude of the vibrations at the greater frequencies.
A system comprising:
- one or more sensors configured to sense vibrations of a vehicle;
- one or more processors configured to determine a rotational speed of a wheel associated with the vehicle and one or more frequencies of interest based on the rotational speed of the wheel associated with the vehicle, the one or more processors also configured to determine whether the vibrations occurring at the one or more frequencies of interest indicate damage to a propulsion system of the vehicle;
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- wherein the one or more processors are further configured to i) determine which of the vibrations of the one or more frequencies of interest are caused by gears within the propulsion system meshing with each other, ii) determine a ratio of a circumference of the wheel to a circumference of one of the gears, and iii) multiply the ratio with the one or more frequencies of interest to determine which of the one or more frequencies of interest of the vibrations are caused by the gears within the propulsion system meshing with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.