Vehicle control system and method
AssigneeGe Global Sourcing LLC
InventorsAndrew Ryan Staats, Karen Ann Shaw, James Allen Oswald
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Abstract
A vehicle control system and method include one or more processors that determine that a vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to power a propulsion system of the vehicle under a first set of operational settings to move the vehicle from a first location to a designated second location that is outside of an unpowered segment of a route along which the vehicle moves. Responsive to determining that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy, the one or more processors change one or more of a throttle setting or a brake setting of the vehicle to operate the vehicle under a second set of operational settings while the vehicle moves within a powered segment of the route.
Claims21
A vehicle control system comprising:
- one or more processors configured to determine that a vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to power a propulsion system of the vehicle under a first set of operational settings to move the vehicle from a first location to a designated second location that is outside of an unpowered segment of a route along which the vehicle is configured to move,
- wherein, responsive to the one or more processors determining that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to move the vehicle from the first location to the designated second location, the one or more processors configured to change one or more of a throttle setting or a brake setting of the vehicle to operate the vehicle under a second set of operational settings while the vehicle moves within a powered segment of the route.
A method comprising:
- determining an amount of energy that a vehicle has to power a propulsion system of the vehicle under a first set of operational settings,
- determining that the amount of energy that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to move the vehicle from a first location to a designated second location outside of an unpowered segment of a route along which the vehicle is configured to move, and
- responsive to determining that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to move the vehicle from the first location to the designated second location, changing one or more of a throttle setting or a brake setting of the vehicle to operate the vehicle under a second set of operational settings while the vehicle moves within a powered segment of the route.
A vehicle control system comprising:
- a controlling comprising one or more processors that is configured to determine that a vehicle has or will have insufficient momentum to move the vehicle from a first location to a designated second location outside of an unpowered segment of a route along which the vehicle is configured to move based on the vehicle operating under a first set of operational settings,
- wherein, responsive to the controller determining that the vehicle has or will have insufficient energy to move the vehicle from the first location to the designated second location, the controller configured to change one or more of a throttle setting or a brake setting of the vehicle to operate the vehicle under a second set of operational settings while the vehicle moves within a powered segment of the route,
- wherein the unpowered segment of the route represents a first section of the route without at least one of an electrified rail or a catenary line, the route comprising the powered segment of the route starting at the designated second location and including at least one of the electrified rail or the catenary line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.