Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Scania Cv Ab

Michael Lehmann

Johan Lindström

Frank Gerstenberg

Florian Buehs

Goeran Saenger

Klaus Dietrich

Juergen Francke

Goeran Keil

Thomas Stark

Oliver Graebner

Florian Bühs

Hans-Peter Lang

Christer Thoren

Johan Lindstroem

Holger Sommer

Hasso Georg Gruenjes

Henrik Engdahl

Göran SÄNGER

Christer THORÉN

Hasso Georg GRÜNJES

Martin Birkner

Kathrin Heilmann

Christian Pfeiffer

A vehicle control facility for the automated control of an electrical road vehicle for a route system with an energy-supply system that includes a lane-bound energy supply line, in particular an overhead line system. A position-determining unit determines a geographical position of the electrical road vehicle. A specific-lane-determining unit determines position data for a specific lane assigned to the lane-bound energy supply line. A communication interface transmits current relative positions of infrastructure features with respect to the electrical road vehicle to an external central specific-lane-determining facility and receives position data. A vehicle-control unit controls the electrical road vehicle with respect to the determined specific lane in dependence on the determined relative position of the specific lane.

Vehicle control system and method for automated driving of a specific lane for continuous supply with electrical energy

A vehicle has an electric or hybrid-electric traction drive supported by an ungrounded vehicle frame. The vehicle also has a current collector, which can be electrically connected to the traction drive and which can be brought in galvanic contact with a contact line of a grounded contact-line system to supply traction energy. The vehicle contains an electrical protection system for avoiding dangerous contact voltages on the vehicle frame or on a vehicle part connected to the vehicle frame in a conductive manner. The protection system has a first protection stage, a second protection stage, and a switching element, by which the protection system can be switched between the first and the second protection stages. The first protection stage provides greater safety from dangerous contact voltages than the second protection stage. Thus, a protection system can be provided which provides sufficient safety in all operating states of the vehicle.

Protection device for a vehicle for preventing contact voltages

A non-track-bound vehicle operates on a route electrified by an overhead contact system. The vehicle has a current collector for energy transfer between the vehicle and an overhead cable. It has a lowering mechanism for the transfer of the current collector from an upright operational position in which the current collector is in sliding contact with the contact wires into a lowered neutral position in which the current collector is arranged within a vehicle clearance profile. An actuating element is provided for the simultaneous activation of the lowering mechanism and an additional vehicle device. The activation of the actuating element is intended in a driving situation requiring the lowering of the current collector. The operation of non-track-bound vehicles is safer even in critical driving situations, such as for example, maneuvers to avoid or overtake other vehicles at high speed.

Non-track-bound vehicle

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Erlangen, Germany

Michael Lehmann