Vehicle handling system and method
AssigneeTransportation IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsScott Alan Schoenly, Patricia Sue Lacy, Matthew Ensley
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Abstract
A method and system include a vehicle control system including a multi-vehicle system. The system includes a controller. The controller determines a slack condition of a multi-vehicle system while the multi-vehicle system is parked. The controller determines the slack condition based on one or more sensor signals received from at least one sensor, the controller configured to control movement of the multi-vehicle system based on the slack condition that is determined while transitioning from being parked to forward motion.
Claims20
A vehicle control system comprising:
- a controller configured to determine that a vehicle system comprising multiple vehicles is in a stationary state and located on a grade, the controller further configured to determine a slack condition of the vehicle system in the stationary state and on the grade based on one or more sensor signals generated by one or more sensors, wherein the controller is configured to control one or more of a braking effort or a tractive effort of at least one of the vehicles of the vehicle system, based on the slack condition that is determined, to change a separation distance between two vehicles of the vehicle system.
A method comprising:
- determining, via one or more processors, that a vehicle system comprising multiple vehicles is in a stationary state and located on a grade;
- determining a slack condition of the vehicle system in the stationary state and on the grade based on one or more sensor signals generated by one or more sensors;
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- controlling one or more of a braking effort or a tractive effort of at least one of the vehicles of the vehicle system, based on the slack condition that is determined, to change a separation distance between two vehicles of the vehicle system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.