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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2019
GE Global Sourcing Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Lucas Vares Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US);
Brian Nedward Meyer, Fairview, PA (US);
Gabriel de Albuquerque Gleizer, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Carlos Gonzaga, Rio de Janeiro, BR;
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A power control system for a vehicle system identifies coupler nodes in the vehicle system for travel of the vehicle system along a route. The coupler nodes represent slack states of couplers between vehicles in the vehicle system. The system also determines combined driving parameters at locations along the route where a state of the coupler nodes in the vehicle system will change within the vehicle system during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system. The system determines a restriction on operations of the vehicle system to control the coupler nodes during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system and to distribute the combined driving parameters among two or more of the vehicles.