Patent ID: 11919552
Assignee: PROGRESS RAIL SERVICES CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 10:
11. The method of claim 10, further including:
communicatively connecting a data acquisition hub to one or more of databases and a plurality of sensors associated with one or more locomotives, systems, or components of a train and configured to acquire real-time and historical configuration, structural, and operational data in association with inputs derived from real time and historical contextual data relating to a plurality of trains being operated along the predefined route or route segment;
providing a machine learning engine configured to receive training data from the data acquisition hub, and train a learning system using the one or more predefined rules and key performance indicators and a learning function including at least one learning parameter, wherein training the learning system may include providing the training data as an input to the learning function, the learning function being configured to use the at least one learning parameter to generate an output based on the input, causing the learning function to generate the output based on the input, comparing the output to a plurality of expected train behaviors, determining a difference between the output and the plurality of expected train behaviors, modifying the at least one learning parameter to decrease the difference responsive to the difference being greater than a threshold difference, and encoding the modified learning function as a statistical model of desirable train handling behavior.