Recognition system for determining a position of a braking control device along a train
AssigneeFaiveley Transport Italia S.P.A.
InventorsStefano Serri, Giovanni Sica, Roberto Tione
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Abstract
A recognition system of a position of a mechatronic braking control device associated with a railway vehicle along a train is described. The recognition system includes a sustaining and fixing support installed on the railway vehicle, an identifying binary coding of the position along the train, and a mechatronic braking control device adapted to be fixed to the sustaining and fixing support and including an optical reading device arranged to detect the identifying binary coding. The mechatronic braking control device determines the position along the train according to the binary coding that is read by the optical reading device.
Claims20
A recognition system comprising:
- an identifying binary coding coupled with a sustaining and fixing support onboard a railway vehicle in a train, the identifying binary coding representative of a position of the railway vehicle along the train;
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- a mechatronic braking control device configured to be fixed to the sustaining and fixing support, the mechatronic braking control device comprising an optical reading device that is configured to detect the identifying binary coding;
- wherein the mechatronic braking control device is configured to determine the position along the train according to the identifying binary coding read by the optical reading device.
A system comprising:
- an arrangement of different symbols disposed on a surface of a vehicle in a multi-vehicle system, wherein the arrangement of different symbols represents encoded information of one or more characteristics of the vehicle;
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- one or more optical sensors configured to detect reflection of light off the symbols in the arrangement and communicate the reflection that is detected to a braking control device for operation of the braking control device based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the vehicle as determined from the detected reflection.
A system comprising:
- a braking control device configured to be disposed onboard a first railway vehicle of a train having the first railway vehicle and one or more additional railway vehicles, the braking control device configured to control braking of the first railway vehicle based on a location of the braking control device along a length of the train;
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- one or more optical sensors configured to be coupled with the braking control device and to optically detect a coding disposed on a surface in the first railway vehicle,
- the braking control device configured to determine the location of the braking control device based on the coding that is detected and to control braking of the first railway vehicle based on the location that is determined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.