Patent ID: 9417630
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: B60K,B61L,G05B,G05D,G07C,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving an alarm state from one or more sensors that inspect one or more components of a vehicle system, the alarm state indicating at least one of a type of alarm, a severity of the alarm, or a location of a defect causing the alarm; identifying one or more operational parameters of the vehicle system, the operational parameters representing at least one of a current location of the vehicle system, a current terrain over which the vehicle system is currently travelling, an upcoming terrain that the vehicle system is travelling toward, a current moving speed of the vehicle system, a position of one or more controls of the vehicle system, a state of a brake of the vehicle system, or an identification of one or more vehicle units in the vehicle system; selecting, with one or more computer processors, a selected mitigating action to implement, the selected mitigating action selected from plural different mitigating actions based on the alarm state and the one or more operational parameters of the vehicle system, wherein, for a common alarm state, a first mitigating action is selected from among the plural different mitigating actions responsive to the one or more operational parameters indicating that the vehicle system is travelling toward or over a first grade and a different, second mitigating action is selected from among the plural different mitigating actions responsive to the one or more operational parameters indicating that the vehicle system is travelling over or toward a different, second grade; and implementing, with the one or more computer processors, the mitigating action in response to the alarm state.