Speed control for any override range effective over a plurality of blocks

A method for implementing an anticipatory speed control of an electric drive over a plurality of data blocks, comprising the steps of:

• a) projecting a plurality of limiting conditions onto each one of a plurality of braking paths of the electric drive in order to determine a shortest braking path representing one of the plurality of limiting conditions, wherein the plurality of limiting conditions includes an admissible track acceleration, a rate of change limitation, and a data block length, wherein the step a) is performed in an anticipatory determination and analysis of a plurality of braking requirements corresponding to the plurality of data blocks, and wherein the anticipatory determination and analysis is carried out for a plurality of variable override transition values, each one of the braking paths corresponding to one of the override transition values;
• b) assigning each braking path for the respective override transition values to a corresponding one of the data blocks analyzed as characteristic data;
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• c) interpolating among the override transition values in accordance with a present current override value in order to determine an actual block final speed necessary to prevent excessively rapid travel in a subsequent data block.