Method for ensuring the standstill of a rail vehicle
AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH
InventorsChristian Strössner, Georg Lohneis
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Abstract
A method for ensuring the standstill of a rail vehicle, in particular ensuring the standstill of the rail vehicle for safety reasons, uses a vehicle controller of the rail vehicle having an electronic control system in order to implement driving commands and standstill commands in the rail vehicle. In addition, a monitoring instance is used, which is independent of the control system and which detects a movement of the rail vehicle, compares the detected movement with a valid driving command of the vehicle controller and, in the case of a deviation, initiates braking of the rail vehicle independently of the control system in order to bring the rail vehicle to a standstill.
Claims11
1-14. (canceled)
A method for ensuring a standstill of a rail vehicle, the method comprising:
- operating the rail vehicle autonomously and without an intervention of a train driver;
- using a vehicle controller having an electronic control system to implement driving commands and standstill commands in the rail vehicle;
- using a landside operational control center to issue the driving commands and standstill commands in the rail vehicle;
- using a monitoring instance being independent from the control system to detect a movement of the rail vehicle, compare the detected movement with a valid driving command of the vehicle controller and, in an event of a deviation, initiate a braking being independent from the control system to bring the rail vehicle to a standstill;
- using sensors disposed on at least one axle of the rail vehicle for the movement detection, and operating the sensors electrically independently from the vehicle control system;
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- using a sensor on the axle of the rail vehicle for motion detection, the sensor detecting an increasing tractive force on a bogie axle of the rail vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.