Vehicle control system

A method for controlling one or more operations of a vehicle system, the method comprising:

• controlling communication between or among vehicle devices that control operation of the vehicle system via a network that communicatively couples the vehicle devices, the communication controlled using a data distribution service (DDS) and with the network operating as a time sensitive network (TSN), the communication controlled by receiving data frames via the time sensitive network, determining classifications for the data frames based on a presence of at least one pattern in the data frames, and generating a communication schedule for the data frames based on the classifications of the data frames that is based on comparing data in the data frames to a pattern data map to determine at least one pattern in the data frames;
• directing a first set of the vehicle devices to communicate using time sensitive communications according to the communication schedule;
• directing a different, second set of the vehicle devices to communicate using best effort communications according to the communication schedule;
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• directing a different, third set of the vehicle devices to communicate using rate constrained communications according to the communication schedule.

A vehicle control system comprising:

• a controller configured to control communication between or among vehicle devices that control operation of a vehicle system via an Ethernet network that communicatively couples the vehicle devices, the controller configured to control the communication using a data distribution service (DDS) and with the network operating as a time sensitive network (TSN);
• wherein the controller is configured to direct a first set of the vehicle devices to communicate using time sensitive communications, a different, second set of the vehicle devices to communicate using best effort communications, and a different, third set of the vehicle devices to communicate using rate constrained communications;
• wherein the controller is configured to direct the first set of the vehicle devices to communicate using the time sensitive communications such that the time sensitive communications are completed using bandwidth of the network while the second and third sets of the vehicle devices communicate the best effort communications and the rate constrained communications using a remaining amount of bandwidth of the network that is not used by the time sensitive communications;
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• wherein the controller is configured to receive data frames via the time sensitive network, determine a presence of at least one pattern based on data in the data frames, determine classifications for the data frames based on the presence of the at least one pattern in the data frames, generate a communication schedule for the data frames based on the classifications for the data frames, communicate the data frames based on the communication schedule, and control one or more operations of the vehicle system based on the data frames that are communicated.