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US 12,371,078 B2Granted
Vehicle monitoring system
AssigneeWestinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
InventorsKevin Angel, Ann Grimm
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Abstract
A vehicle monitoring system and method receive a selection of at least one vehicle-of-interest onboard a vehicle system moving along one or more routes in a transportation network. The at least one vehicle-of-interest is disposed on the one or more routes in the transportation network. One or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest are monitored from onboard the vehicle system. The one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest are displayed on a display device disposed onboard the vehicle system. A determination is made whether to change display of the one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest on the display device based on an update to a notified state of the at least one vehicle-of-interest being received onboard the vehicle system.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving identification of a group of plural nearby vehicles onboard a controller of a vehicle system, the group of the plural nearby vehicles including the vehicles that are within one or more of a threshold distance or a communication range of the vehicle system;
- receiving a selection of at least one vehicle-of-interest from among the group of the plural nearby vehicles, the selection received onboard the vehicle system from one or more of an operator of the vehicle system or the controller of the vehicle system;
- monitoring one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest that is selected onboard the vehicle system from onboard the vehicle system;
- displaying the one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest on a display device disposed onboard the vehicle system;
- and
- determining whether to change display of the one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest on the display device based on an update to a notified state of the at least one vehicle-of-interest being received onboard the vehicle system,
- wherein the selection of the at least one vehicle-of-interest is received based on one or more of a planned meet-and-pass event or a planned overtake event between the at least one vehicle-of-interest and the vehicle system, and
- wherein the selection of the at least one vehicle-of-interest is received further based on input of an identifier of the at least one vehicle-of-interest.
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A vehicle monitoring system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to receive identification of a group of plural nearby vehicles onboard a vehicle system, the group of the plural nearby vehicles including the vehicles that are within one or more of a threshold distance or a communication range of the vehicle system, the one or more processors configured to select at least one vehicle-of-interest from among the group of the plural nearby vehicles;
- and
- a display configured to be disposed onboard the vehicle system and configured to display one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest that is determined,
- the one or more processors configured to monitor the one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest from onboard the vehicle system, the one or more processors also configured to determine whether to change display of the one or more locations of the at least one vehicle-of-interest on the display device based on an update to a notified state of the at least one vehicle-of-interest being received onboard the vehicle system,
- wherein the at least one vehicle-of-interest is a rail vehicle-of-interest,
- wherein the one or more processors are configured to select the at least one rail vehicle-of-interest based on one or more of:
- a meet-and-pass event between the at least one vehicle-of-interest and the vehicle system;
- or
- an overtake event between the at least one vehicle-of-interest and the vehicle system.
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A method comprising:
- receiving identification of a group of nearby vehicles onboard a controller of a vehicle system, the group of the nearby vehicles including vehicles that are within one or more of a threshold distance or a communication range of the vehicle system;
- receiving a selection of plural vehicles-of-interest from among the group of the nearby vehicles, the selection received onboard the vehicle system from one or more of an operator of the vehicle system or the controller of the vehicle system;
- displaying a location associated with each of the plural vehicles-of-interest on a display device disposed onboard the vehicle system;
- determining whether to change display of the location associated with one or more of the plural vehicles-of-interest on the display device based on an update to a notified state of the one or more of the plural vehicles-of-interest;
- and
- changing operation of the vehicle system based on at least one of:
- the location associated with the one or more of the plural vehicles-of-interest or the notified state of the one or more of the plural vehicles-of-interest,
- wherein the selection of each the vehicle-of-interest is received based on one or more of a planned meet-and-pass event or a planned overtake event between the vehicle-of-interest and the vehicle system, and
- wherein the selection of each the vehicle-of-interest is received further based on input of an identifier of the vehicle-of-interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.