Railway vehicle
AssigneeTransit X, LLC
InventorMichael David Stanley
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Abstract
Vehicles for use on a railway and their methods of operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a bogie with wheels engaged with opposing tracks extending along a length of a railway the bogie travels along. The vehicle includes at least one sensor configured to sense a position of the bogie and/or wheels relative to the tracks of the railway. A processor of the vehicle uses the sensed position of the bogie and/or wheels relative to the tracks to steer the wheels of the bogie along a desired path on the tracks as the bogie travels along the railway.
Claims26
A vehicle comprising:
- a bogie including at least a first wheel and a second wheel coupled to a body of the bogie, wherein the first and second wheels are configured to engage with opposing tracks extending along a length of a railway as the bogie travels along the railway;
- at least one look ahead sensor configured to sense a position of the bogie relative to the tracks of the railway;
- a vehicle body coupled to a bottom of the bogie body such that the vehicle body is configured to be suspended below the railway;
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- a processor configured to receive the sensed position of the bogie relative to the tracks of the railway from the at least one look ahead sensor, wherein the processor is configured to determine a desired path of the first wheel and the second wheel on the tracks of the railway as the bogie travels along the railway based at least in part on the sensed position of the bogie relative to the tracks of the railway.
A method of controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
- sensing a position of at least one wheel of the vehicle relative to at least one track of a railway on which the at least one wheel is disposed as the vehicle travels along the railway;
- determining a desired path of the at least one wheel along the at least one track;
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- steering the at least one wheel along the desired path as the vehicle travels along the railway.
A vehicle comprising:
- a bogie configured to engage a railway;
- a vehicle body;
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- at least two connections extending between a top surface of the vehicle body and an opposing bottom surface of the bogie such that the vehicle body is suspended below the bogie when the bogie is engaged with the railway, wherein the at least two connections are spaced apart along a longitudinal length of the bogie.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.