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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Scott Alan Schoenly, Melbourne, FL (US);
GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and system include a vehicle system including a plurality of vehicles. The system includes a handling unit comprising a communication device and a controller. The communication device receives first position data for a first vehicle of the vehicle system and second position data for a second vehicle of the vehicle system relative to a route on which the vehicle system is traveling. The controller determines that the first vehicle is entering into a curved portion of the route, and generates a control signal based on the first and second position data. The control signal changes an operating parameter of at least one of the first or second vehicles to control a separation distance between the vehicles or a deviation distance between respective travel paths taken by the first and second vehicles through the curved portion of the route.