Patent ID: 11958515
Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for identifying properties of a rail-guided vehicle, the method comprising:
using an axle counter to detect measurement data as the rail-guided vehicle crosses the axle counter;
analyzing the measurement data in a computer-assisted manner and ascertaining a speed and distances between axles of the vehicle;
ascertaining a property of the rail-guided vehicle in a computer-assisted manner based on the ascertained speed and the ascertained distances between axles;
carrying out a checking step including ascertaining a pattern of normalized distances between axles by calculating a normalized distance between axles by taking a predefined normalized speed assigned to each of the ascertained distances between axles into account, and merging the normalized distances between axles to form the pattern by taking an order of the ascertained distances between axles into account;
comparing the pattern with reference patterns;
upon identifying a conformity of the pattern with a reference pattern, assigning a type linked to the reference pattern to the vehicle as a property; and
using the type assigned to the vehicle to control a train component.