A method for the operation of a brake control system for a rail vehicle that includes a brake system that has at least partially one friction brake, includes determining at least one characteristic curve using at least one virtual and/or at least one actual reference braking journey of the rail vehicle, which characteristic curve sets at least one control variable for maintaining at least one performance variable in relation to one another, recording the characteristic curve in the brake control system; and using the characteristic curve functioning as a basis for controlling the brake system of the rail vehicle. Furthermore, a brake control system, a brake system, and a rail vehicle are provided.

An anti-skid system for an electromechanical braking system of at least one vehicle including at least one wheel is described, comprising an anti-skid module arranged to execute a predetermined anti-skid function and a supervisor module arranged to monitor the anti-skid module, wherein the supervisor module includes a braking force application request adjustment module, wherein the supervisor module and the anti-skid module are modules that are distinct from each other, and the braking force application request adjustment module is arranged to adjust a braking force application request signal independently of the execution of the anti-skid function by the anti-skid module.

An electropneumatic rail brake system configured to provide emergency braking including an emergency magnet valve which controls air flow into an emergency regulator valve, which valve has an emergency back-up chamber. The emergency regulator provides an output pressure nominally equal to the variable load pressure and no lower than the tare back-up. The magnet valve is closed when energized and when de-energized, pressure is allowed into the emergency back-up chamber, Regulation of the brake cylinder pressure continues during an emergency application such that the brake cylinder pressure applied during an emergency stop does not drop below a predetermined level. In the event of power-loss during an emergency brake stop, the nominal emergency brake pressure is applied to the brake cylinders.

A vehicle includes a rotationally movable actuating element and a sensor arrangement for measuring an actuating angle of the actuating element. The sensor arrangement has a measuring acceleration sensor which is fastened to the actuating element, and a reference acceleration sensor which is fastened immovably to the vehicle. A method for measuring the actuating angle of a rotationally movable actuating element in a vehicle, a measuring arrangement configured to carry out a method for measuring, a computer program product and a provision apparatus for the computer program product, are also provided.

A method operates a rail vehicle along a railway line. Accordingly, a trip of the rail vehicle has a travel section along the railway line, which travel section ends before or at a hazard point of the railway line. The rail vehicle, in a protection mode, is braked starting from a first speed during a braking phase at the start of the travel section. During the braking phase, a kinetic quantity of the kinetic energy amount of the rail vehicle is absorbed by an energy absorption unit. The braking phase is followed by an energy dissipation phase, in which part of the absorbed energy is discharged. The travel section is defined such that an energy state parameter representative of a vehicle energy amount, which energy state parameter takes into account the energy amount present in the energy absorption unit, satisfies a condition at the hazard point.

A method for the operation of a brake control system for a rail vehicle that includes a brake system that has at least partially one friction brake, includes determining at least one characteristic curve using at least one virtual and/or at least one actual reference braking journey of the rail vehicle, which characteristic curve sets at least one control variable for maintaining at least one performance variable in relation to one another, recording the characteristic curve in the brake control system; and using the characteristic curve functioning as a basis for controlling the brake system of the rail vehicle. Furthermore, a brake control system, a brake system, and a rail vehicle are provided.

A method and device monitor and influence the thermal state of a friction brake system of a rail vehicle on the basis of a calculated or estimated predictive friction element temperature of at least one friction element of the friction brake system. The method detects at least one parameter which characterizes the current driving operation situation of the rail vehicle; calculates, estimates, or determines a first temperature component of the predictive friction element temperature based on the current driving operation situation of the rail vehicle; and takes into consideration a first temperature component while monitoring and influencing the thermal state of the friction brake system.

In a railway vehicle, a brake control device controlling a first brake device that presses a friction material against a wheel and a second brake device not using the friction material includes: a wheel load estimation unit estimating a wheel load-based on a wheel speed and a brake force applied to the wheel by the friction material; a friction surface state quantity estimation unit estimating a current friction coefficient of the friction material from a state of a friction surface thereof based on the wheel load, the wheel speed, and a brake force command, and outputting a mirror-surfacing signal indicating the friction surface is in a mirror-surfaced state when the friction coefficient is less than a first threshold value; and a brake control unit controlling operations of the first and second brake devices based on the brake force command and presence or absence of the mirror-surfacing signal.

A brake control system to be installed on a railroad car, the system including: a brake command unit that outputs a first brake command by a first communication method and outputs a second brake command by a second communication method, the first brake command indicating details of control of a brake, the second brake command restricting details of control of the brake; and a brake control unit that acquires the first brake command by the first communication method via a train control and monitoring system, acquires the second brake command by the second communication method, and controls the brake based on the first brake command and the second brake command.

There is provided an automatic train operation system which can stop a train precisely at a stop target position without worsening ride quality even with the control system being a discrete system. The automatic train operation system comprises a relative distance measuring device to acquire information about a relative distance of the train relative to a stop position of a station to output average distance information that is the average of relative distances and a brake control device. The brake control device includes a sensor information holding unit to hold speed information and position information detected by sensors to output; a correction amount computing unit to compute a specifying value correction amount to output; and an instruction planning unit to compute a deceleration specifying value based on the specifying value correction amount and sensor information.