Vehicle flashover detection system

A locomotive control system includes a locomotive having a traction motor and sensors. The traction motor provides tractive effort for propelling the locomotive and the sensors measure performance conditions of the locomotive. The system also includes a controller having one or more processors commu...

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Hauptverfasser:	Ravi, Premsunder, Worden, Bret, Ahuja, Munishwar, Chandrasekaran, Shankar, S., Chandra Mouleswar Reddy
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE CHECKING-DEVICES ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS RAILWAYS REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS TRANSPORTING VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS
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Zusammenfassung:	A locomotive control system includes a locomotive having a traction motor and sensors. The traction motor provides tractive effort for propelling the locomotive and the sensors measure performance conditions of the locomotive. The system also includes a controller having one or more processors communicatively coupled with the traction motor. The controller selects one or more baseline conditions that designate operational conditions under which the locomotive is to operate, and monitors the performance conditions that are generated by the locomotive during operation of the locomotive according to the operational conditions designated by the one or more baseline conditions. The controller identifies a flashover condition or a plugging condition of the locomotive by comparing the performance conditions that are generated by the locomotive during operation of the locomotive with the one or more baseline conditions. The flashover condition or the plugging condition causing degradation of one or more components of the locomotive.