General Electric Company

Eric Vorndran

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Kevin Kapp

Daniel Keith Pagano

James D Brooks

Jeffrey Michael Fries

Robert James Foy

John William Brand

David Allen Eldredge

Brian Nedward Meyer

Joseph Daniel Wakeman

Saravanan Thiyagarajan

Gregory Hann

Jeffrey A Twichel

William Martin

James Andrew Napolitano

Steve R Murphy

Juli-Ann Luther

Swapna Rameshbabu Gaikwad

Jeffery Armstrong

Robert N Bettis

Daniel G Penny, Iii

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Patricia Sue Lacy

Vishram Vinayak Nandedkar

Bradley Dale Brown

Ryan John Goes

Shawn T Clark

Parameswaran Shanmugam

Hsien-Kuo Lin

An energy management system and method for a vehicle system operate the vehicle system according to a current trip plan as the vehicle system travels along a route during a trip. The current trip plan designates operational settings of the vehicle system. The system and method also revise the current trip plan into a revised trip plan responsive to current, actual operation of the vehicle system differing from the current trip plan by at least a designated threshold amount. The revised trip plan designates operational settings of the vehicle system and includes an initial designated operational setting that matches the current, actual operation of the vehicle system.

Energy management system and method for vehicle systems

There is provided a voltage or current sensing device. An exemplary voltage or current sensing device includes a drive circuitry configured to deliver a drive current to a magnetic core operably coupled with a conductor, for driving the core to cyclical magnetic saturation. The device also includes sense circuitry configured to receive a voltage signal corresponding to an application current in the conductor. The device also includes signal processing circuitry configured to sample the voltage signal, wherein a first sample is in phase with the drive current and a second sample is out of phase with the drive current. The device also includes a feedback loop configured to deliver a compensation current to the magnetic core, wherein the compensation current is configured to balance the magnetic core and wherein the compensation current is based at least in part on the first sample in phase with the drive current.

Current sensor

A method for controlling a powered system, the method including operating the powered system to perform a mission based on an optimized mission plan, identifying when the powered system is approaching a location in the mission where the powered system may change from a first route to a second route, obtaining information about whether the first route or the second route will be taken, and if the second route is taken, adjusting the mission plan to optimize reduced emissions output and/or reduced fuel consumption based on the route change.

System, method and computer software code for obtaining information for routing a powered system and adjusting a route in accordance with relevant information

A system and method for predicting a route to be authorized by a dispatcher for a vehicle to travel on a route network comprises a computer system that has a database having stored data relative to interconnecting route segments that make up the route network. Data relative to the origination location and the destination location is input into the computer system. The processor accesses the database and generates a predicted route with an origination location and destination location.

System and method for predicting a vehicle route using a route network database

There is provided a method of determining the state of a signal lamp. The method includes receiving time series data corresponding to an electrical signal used to power a signal lamp. The state of the signal lamp can switch from one of the following states to another of the following states: an on state, an off state, and a flashing state. The method also includes determining the state of the signal lamp, based at least in part on both the time series data and an amplitude value of the electrical signal relative to an amplitude-change threshold value over a determined number of amplitude changes.

Method and system for determining signal state

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