General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Nikhil Uday Naphade

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Nidhi Naithani

Scott Daniel Nelson

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Wing Yeung Chung

Jeffrey James Kisak

Anju Bind

Sreyashi Dey Chaki

Michael Scott Miner

Shannon Joseph Clouse

Anwarul Azam

Matthew Lawrence Blair

Daniel Malachi Ballesty

Dale Martin DiDomenico

Seneca Snyder

Brad Thomas Costa

Jerry Duncan

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Jared Klineman Cooper

Wolfgang Daum

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

David Michael Peltz

Eugene Andrew Smith

Sethu K Madhavan

Paul Kenneth Houpt

Daniel Joseph Rush

David Lowell McKay

Shawn Arthur McClintic

Martin Paget

Suresh Govindappa

Manibabu Pippalla

Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar

Arunachala Karthik Sridharan

Prabhu Marimuthu

Sharon DSouza

Krishna Chaitanya Narra

Daniel Malachi Bellesty

A system and method includes determining, with a sensor assembly disposed onboard a first aerial vehicle, a direction in which a fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle, and determining an orientation of the first aerial vehicle relative to a second aerial vehicle based at least in part on the direction in which the fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle.

System and method for determining vehicle orientation in a vehicle consist

System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.

Vehicle control system and method

A camera system and method capture image data with a camera, a data storage device electrically connected to the camera and configured to store the video data and/or a communication device electrically connected to the camera and configured to communicate the image data to a system receiver located remote from the camera. The system receiver may be located onboard a vehicle such that an operator can carry the camera off board the vehicle and communicate the image data back to the vehicle, when performing, for example, work on the vehicle or inspecting the vehicle or the environs of the vehicle.

Video system and method for data communication

A locomotive speed determination system and method receive image data of a field of view of a camera operably disposed onboard a locomotive. A speed and/or heading of the locomotive are determined as the vehicle is moving based at least in part on one or more differences in the image data. In one aspect, pixel intensities in different images or frames may be examined to identify one or more features of interest in the images or frames. Movement of the one or more features of interest in the images or frames is correlated to movement of the locomotive along the route, and the time difference between when the images or frames are obtained can be used to determine the locomotive speed.

Method and system to determine vehicle speed

A vehicle speed determination system and method receive image data of a field of view of a camera operably disposed onboard a vehicle. A speed and/or heading of the vehicle are determined as the vehicle is moving based at least in part on one or more differences in the image data. In one aspect, pixel intensities in different images or frames may be examined to identify one or more features of interest in the images or frames. Movement of the one or more features of interest in the images or frames is correlated to movement of the vehicle along the route, and the time difference between when the images or frames are obtained can be used to determine the vehicle speed.

An aerial system and method use a distance sensor to measure spatial distances between the distance sensor and plural vehicles in a vehicle system formed from the vehicles operably coupled with each other during relative movement between the distance sensor and the vehicle system. The spatial distances measured by the distance sensor are used to determine a size parameter of the vehicle system based on the spatial distances that are measured.

Aerial camera system and method for determining size parameters of vehicle systems

An aerial camera system includes an aerial device disposed onboard a non-aerial vehicle as the non-aerial vehicle moves along a route. The aerial device also can be configured to fly above the route during movement of the vehicle along the route. The camera unit is configured to be disposed onboard the aerial device and to generate image data during flight of the aerial device. The one or more image analysis processors are configured to examine the image data and to identify a hazard disposed ahead of the non-aerial vehicle along a direction of travel of the non-aerial vehicle based on the image data. A method for identifying route-related hazards using image data obtained from a camera unit on an aerial device.

Aerial camera system and method for identifying route-related hazards

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