Expert system for train control

William F Drish Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.216861

18 August 1995 Expert system for train control

William F Drish Jr.

Proceedings Volume 2622, Optical Engineering Midwest '95; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.216861
Event: Optical Engineering Midwest '95, 1995, Chicago, IL, United States

Abstract

The train energy model (TEM), a general train simulator developed at the Association of American Railroads, is widely used in the railroad industry. Recently, a new train controller, the general automatic train-controller (GAT), has been developed for TEM. In the GAT, the 'intelligence' or 'expertise' is a set of 'if-then' train-handling rules in an external file. The expert system for train control presented in this paper is a slightly simplified version of the GAT. The main thesis of this paper is: simple, unchained rules are adequate for complex train control. Thus, an 'inference engine' using forward chaining is not required.

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William F Drish Jr. "Expert system for train control", Proc. SPIE 2622, Optical Engineering Midwest '95, (18 August 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.216861

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